Supreme Court decision weakens EPA authority, scales back scope of Clean Water Act
Coral Davenport:
Sure.
So there were a lot of groups that had been pushing legally and politically for the overturn of these regulations and these protections, chiefly farmers, real estate developers, golf course developers. Not surprisingly, former President Trump had pushed really hard to roll back a lot of these regulations, because they really did get in the way of what a lot of people could potentially do with their land.
And so, without these protections, it really takes away — it takes away penalties for filling in wetlands and developing. It takes away penalties for farmers who could have been penalized for using fertilizers or pollutants that would run into wetlands, and they would receive penalties from the EPA.
So a lot of those areas that had been protected, now that the protections are gone, those are the groups that are saying, well, now we can — we can do what we want with this land.
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