An amended rule redefining the scope of federal “navigable waters” doesn’t comport with a 2023 US Supreme Court decision, a North Carolina landowner claims in a new suit.
In Sackett v. EPA, the high court said that the Clean Water Act only extends to wetlands if they have a continuous surface connection to a relatively permanent body of water.
Robert White, who runs a commercial seafood business and owns tracts of land in coastal Pasquotank County, said that decision requires “drastic revision” to agencies’ “historically broad approach to wetlands regulation.”
The amended rule—issued by the Environmental Protection Agency and ...
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