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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Supreme Court Drains the EPA's Wetlands Overreach

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Justices say 5-4 in Sackett v. EPA that federal regulations on the navigable "waters of the United States" don't reach a property with wetlands that are only distantly connected. Plus, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation warns about summer blackouts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,

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this is Potomac Watch.

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The Supreme Court pulls the drain

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on the Environmental Protection Agency's

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overreach on wetlands regulation

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as a new analysis warns of a risk

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of widespread electricity blackouts

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and brownouts this summer.

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Welcome, Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

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We are joined today by my colleagues,

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columnists Alicia Finley and Kim Strassel.

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Let's start with the Supreme Court.

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There is a landmark case there on the Clean Water Act

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and a significant controversy over the last several years

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involving the waters of the United States.

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Alicia, can you give us a sense of what this ruling was about

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and the significance of it?

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So this ruling was about the Clean Water Act.

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It's a 1970s era law that allows Congress,

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