EPA slashes federally protected waters by more than half after Supreme Court ruling

A road bisects wetland near Kulm, North Dakota. The EPA has significant restricted what constitutes federally protected waters after a recent Supreme Court ruling. CNN —

The Environmental Protection Agency and US Army on Tuesday released a new rule that slashes federally protected water by more than half, following a Supreme Court decision in May that rolled back protections for US wetlands.

The rule will invalidate an earlier definition of what constitutes the so-called waters of the United States, after the Supreme Court ruled Clean Water Act protections extend only to “wetlands with a continuous surface connection to bodies that are […]

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