💧🌏 Greg CocksDec 23
Ten Things To Know About The Proposed 2025 WOTUS Rule [shared article]
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https://www.swca.com/news-insights/ten-things-to-know-about-the-proposed-2025-wotus-rule/ <-- shared (SWCA) precis article
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https://www.epa.gov/wotus/updated-definition-waters-united-states <-- shared EPA Updated Definition of Waters of the United States.
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https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2025-11/11132.1-01-ow_wotus_nprm_ria_20251110_508.pdf <-- shared EPA document ‘Regulatory Impact Analysis for the Proposed Updated Definition of Waters of the United States Rule’
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[this post is intended to pass on information in this article only, and further should NOT be considered an endorsement of a particular viewpoint, consultant, etc]
#water #hydrology #hydrography #USA #regulations #WOTUS #EPA #USACE #proposedRule #WatersOfTheUnitedStates #CleanWaterAct #CWA
@EPA @USACE
San Francisco BaykeeperNov 19

The Trump admin's newly proposed changes to the #CleanWaterAct would reduce or eliminate environmental protections in the Bay Area and across the U.S.

“This proposed rule could strip protections from the vast majority of wetlands in California, which are necessary to protect Bay Area communities from rising seas," as Baykeeper senior scientist Ian Wren said in a statement. "We can’t protect the Bay’s ecosystem and clean water if the law no longer recognizes the wetlands that make it possible."

#WOTUS #BayArea #SFBay #SanfranciscoBay #wetlands

Read more: https://baykeeper.org/press_release/epa-issues-proposed-clean-water-act-rollbacks-baykeeper-statement/

Minnesota ReformerAug 31, 2023
New federal water pollution rule draws mixed reaction https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/08/31/new-federal-water-pollution-rule-draws-mixed-reaction/ #water #wotus #epa #scotus
New federal water pollution rule draws mixed reaction - Minnesota Reformer

A federal rule limiting agencies’ power to regulate water pollution will severely restrict protections for waters and wetlands throughout the country, but could also be subject to challenges from conservative groups that maintain the new rule exerts more federal jurisdiction than the U.S. Supreme Court intended in a May decision. With the rule published Tuesday […]

Minnesota Reformer
Jeff HeilveilMay 26, 2023
@Anthro
This constant rangling over enforcement jurisdiction is why we need to replace "The Clean Water Act," which is just a set of amendments to a pollution control act and therefore about limiting dirty water, not ensuring clean water, with a Right to Clean Water and then define clean water. Then states would have to enforce it on their own. It's inane that clean water isn't a basic federally protected right in the US.
#wotus #CleanWater #ecology #WaterIsABasicRight
Show threadArena Cops 🇺🇦✌May 25, 2023

@annejefferson Leonard Leo's the SCOTUS ice-cream maker & vendor, with currently six ice flavors in his box, wandering about & praising each: "Buy one & have all! Waiting for your bid — highest wins!"

It's simple: Clean SCOTUS from Federalist Society affiliates & have a clean America!

#SaveLives #RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #CleanWaterAct #WOTUS #Water #SupremeCourt #Wetlands #WetlandProtection

San Francisco BaykeeperMay 25, 2023
Today's #SCOTUS ruling will jeopardize the health of #SFBay, lead to a nationwide patchwork of sacrifice zones, and invite regulatory chaos, as Baykeeper attorney Eric Buescher says in our statement on the ruling: https://baykeeper.org/press_release/scotus-ruling-weakens-clean-water-act #WOTUS #CleanWaterAct
SCOTUS Ruling Weakens Clean Water Act

The United States Supreme Court today ruled that the Clean Water Act does not allow the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate some wetlands near bodies of protected waters. The court determined that the law covers only wetlands “with a continuous surface connection” to protected waters, even though they may be part of the same greater ecosystem or have been artificially separated by human-made barriers.

San Francisco Baykeeper
Show threadjacob fischlerMay 25, 2023
Here's our States Newsroom story: https://kentuckylantern.com/2023/05/25/u-s-supreme-court-rejects-biden-wetlands-regulation-ruling-for-idaho-couple/
#wotus #scotus #uspol
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Biden wetlands regulation, ruling for Idaho couple - Kentucky Lantern

All nine justices agreed to overturn a lower court ruling that endorsed the Biden administration’s definition of waters protected by the Clean Water Act.

Kentucky Lantern
Show threadAnne JeffersonMay 25, 2023
As you see links to critiques to of the ruling, please send them to me. I will boost all the discourse I see. #CleanWaterAct #WOTUS #Water #SupremeCourt #Wetlands #WetlandProtection
Anne JeffersonMay 25, 2023

The US Supreme Court Clean Water Act decision could be disastrous for wetland protection - and therefore for our nation's flood risks and water quality. The continuous surface test ignores the physical / hydrologic realities of wetlands.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/25/1178150234/supreme-court-epa-clean-water-act

#CleanWaterAct #WOTUS #Water #SupremeCourt #Wetlands #WetlandProtection

jacob fischlerMay 25, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the EPA's definition of Waters of the United States https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-454_4g15.pdf
#wotus #uspol #scotus