Biden’s Wetland Rule Ruled All Wet

Supreme Court handed Joe a UNANIMOUS smackdown when it ruled his EPA was all wet in issuing new rules prohibiting landowners from improving their land near a “wetland,” even tho it wasn’t connected to a major body of water.

As Fox News reported, “The case centered on … two Idaho residents whom EPA prohibited from building a home near a wetland years ago, citing the Clean Waters Act of 1972.” As the court’s opinion written by Justice Alito noted, “EPA ordered the Sacketts to restore the site, threatening penalties of over $40,000 per day.” The Court didn’t’ say it, but if the EPA’s recent broad interpretation of Congress’s enabling “waters of the United States” lingo included this wetland that was near a ditch that fed into a creek which fed into a lake … one might argue all landowners, ranchers, or farmers nearby (or anywhere else) might also be controlled by the EPA simply because rain water had trickled from their property, into a ditch that fed into a creek that fed into a lake.

Late last year, the EPA had “quietly announced” it had approved a new regulation to be implemented in March that critics had argued constituted gross overreaching because it “opened the door for the federal government to regulate wetlands, ponds, streams & ‘relatively permanent’ waterways, largely mimicking a pre-2015 environmental rule set during the Obama administration” in the name of curbing “water pollution.” But, 24 states got a federal judge to “pause” implementation of that reg and the House & Senate both moved to reject the Biden regulation’s so-called “significant nexus” test.

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