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In Sackett v. EPA, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a massive blow to EPA's ability to regulate wetlands under the Clean Water Act ("CWA"). Addressing the "nagging question" about the.
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Congress passed the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 colloquially known as the Clean Water Act (CWA) to “restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters.”REF To do so, the CWA requires parties to obtain a permit before discharging a pollutant into “navigable waters.”
On April 21, 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers published a proposed rule “Definition of ‘Waters of the United States’ Under the Clean Water Act” (CWA) to define which waters are covered under the Clean Water Act (that is, jurisdictional waters).[1] The proposed rule could cover almost any type of water, giving the two agencies far greater power than authorized under the CWA.