“War on the environment”: Samuel Alito just issued a radical rewrite of the Clean Water Act Even Brett Kavanaugh sided with the court's liberals in the case ...

Justice Samuel Alito misses the point entirely when he defends his decision to weaken the Clean Water Act by stating, “Today, many formerly fetid bodies of water are safe for the use and ...

Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote for the court, ruled that the agency had gone beyond what the Clean Water Act allowed. “We hold that the two challenged provisions exceed the EPA’s authority ...

Writing for five justices, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said that the Clean Water Act does not allow the agency to regulate discharges into wetlands near bodies of water unless they have “a ...

According to Alito, “adjacent” in the context of the Clean Water Act must mean that the wetland shares a “continuous surface connection” with a “navigable” body of water. But Alito’s ...

Justice Samuel Alito arrived at this distinction by parsing the wording of the Clean Water Act as passed by Congress in 1972 and amended in 2018—specifically the words “waters of the United ...

Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion for the five-justice Sackett majority rejects the text, the history, and the purpose of the Clean Water Act by declaring that to be considered “adjacent ...

Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion ignored the consequences of the city’s continual sewage discharge, ... The Clean Water Act, Alito wrote for the court, ...

Samuel Alito’s Assault on Wetlands Is So Indefensible That He Lost Brett Kavanaugh. ... Put simply: The Clean Water Act protects wetlands that are “adjacent” to larger bodies of water.

The U.S. Supreme Court placed new restrictions on the scope of the jurisdiction the Clean Water Act has over wetlands, ruling in favor of Idaho landowners who had challenged the law.

The first time he takes the bench later this month, new Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. will face a baptism not by fire but by water. Three cases challenging the scope of the Clean Water ...

Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote for the court, ruled that the agency had gone beyond what the Clean Water Act allowed. “We hold that the two challenged provisions exceed the EPA’s authority ...