#Wetlands that fell victim to past #SCOTUS and now #Sackett’s #CarbonBombs were home:
The native #Yokuts lived, fished and hunted along the shores of #TulareLake, where #elk and #antelope, countless #migratory #birds and #terrapins, #frogs and #fish teemed amid #tule reeds and #cattails. Tulare Lake, before it began to go dry in the late 1800s, was the largest #freshwater body #west of the #Mississippi #River.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/tulare-lake-peak-18128743.php

#landback

Excellent and disturbing thread about yesterday's ghastly, and remarkably arrogant, anti-environmental and anti-democratic Supreme Court decision. I actually think it's quite possible that Justice Scalia would have dissented on textualist grounds.

🔗: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1661846193805365248.html

#EPA #Sackett #SCOTUS #CleanWater #USPol #USPolitics

It's hard to describe how unscientific the Sackett v EPA SCOTUS ruling was today. By insisting that regulated waters only apply when there is "continuous surface connection" goes against everything we know about wetlands, runoff, and groundwater in watersheds.

Early in my career I did research on perchlorate, which was dumped en masse in the desert outside Las Vegas, many miles from any river. But somehow it found its way to the drinking water of Southern California...by magic? No, there are pathways that aren't obvious to the casual observer, which is why the Clean Water Act is based on science.

Regulatory authority without science is just what the MAGAs want to insist upon, because it then becomes gutted under responsible leadership, and dictatorial under them
https://www.vox.com/2023/5/25/23737426/supreme-court-clean-water-act-epa-pollution-wetlands-sackett-alito
#EPA #Sackett #SCOTUS #CleanWater