Kerry Flaherty-Walia

Nov 20, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Blake Simmons |Marcus W. Beck |Jessica Lewis |Kerry Flaherty-Walia

AbstractFor decades, federal protections were extended to wetlands adjacent to navigable "waters of the US" by the Clean Water Act. In its Sackett v. EPA ruling, however, the US Supreme Court redefined the meaning of "adjacent," eliminating protections to wetlands without a continuous surface connection to these waters (i.e., geographically isolated wetlands).