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Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, 598 U.S. 651 (2023), also known as Sackett II (to distinguish it from the 2012 case), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that only wetlands and permanent bodies of water with a "continuous surface connection" to "traditional interstate navigable waters" are covered by the Clean Water Act.
Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, 566 U.S. 120 (2012), also known as Sackett I (to distinguish it from the 2023 case), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that orders issued by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Water Act are subject to the Administrative Procedure Act. [1]
Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency may refer to either of two United States Supreme Court cases: Environmental Protection Agency (2012) (alternatively called Sackett I ), 570 U.S. 205 (2013), a case in which the Court ruled that orders issued by the EPA under the Clean Water Act are subject to the Administrative Procedure Act .
NC legislators are considering changing the state’s wetlands definition to match the federal government’s, which the Supreme Court sharply limited.
The illegality of relying on such temporary flooding had already been decided by the unanimous Supreme Court decision (Sackett v. EPA 2023 that simply reaffirmed Rapanos v U.S. 2006) and is ...
Carter said the legislature should have paused to assess the Sackett ruling before rolling back state wetlands regulations. ”Instead, they just went with the home builders,” he said.
In Sackett v. EPA, Chantell and Mike Sackett sought to build a home on their Idaho property in 2007 but were stopped by the EPA, which claimed the land was federally regulated wetlands under the CWA. The Sacketts faced severe fines unless they obtained a federal permit, leading to a 16-year legal battle.
Millions of acres of wetlands across the country lost protections that existed under the Clean Water Act after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year left it up to states to decide the extent of ...