Supreme Court to decide whether climate studies will be required for Infrastructure projects
By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2024-07-08T19:04:58-04:00July 5th, 2024|
Another opportunity to rein in the administrative state
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Another opportunity to rein in the administrative state
For decades the "Chevron deference" has left a gaping hole in our constitutional system of checks and balances wide enough to drive a regulatory freight train through.
Chevron v. The Natural Resources Defense Council overturned. Bureaucratic overreach reined in!
“This is a significant victory for states' sovereignty and the rule of law. This plan, if implemented, would have imposed undue regulatory burdens on states – and the EPA doesn’t have the power to do that... We are committed to defending the prerogatives of states against federal encroachment.” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost
This appears to be part of a concerted effort to get as many rules and regulations as possible in place by the end of the year,
Whether the landowners qualify for “just compensation” under the Fifth Amendment will set a significant precedent for other takings cases to be litigated in the years to come.
As a result of the Sackett decision, several types of waters will no longer be under federal jurisdiction, including an estimated 1.2 million to 4.9 million miles of ephemeral streams.
They aim to skip public comment and have a revised WOTUS rule by late September.
The Supreme Court ruling in Sackett v. EPA will have reverberations far beyond the Clean Water Act (CWA).
In one of the most consequential judicial decisions in recent memory, the Supreme Court significantly limited EPA's authority to regulate wetlands under the Clean Water Act (CWA).