Property rights defenders and developers hail the ruling as a victory, while others decry it as a giveaway to polluters that will harm the environment.
It feels like one of those things you need to handle at the state level, but I know that some states aren’t going to tolerate the level of protection provided in other states.
I guess it does ultimately come to that for the strictest protections, and probably local EPAs are more in tune with the local hydrology so far as making regulations. However, it could raise a big question of “why bother?” if one state has stricter wetlands protections but has major tributaries discharging into the jurisdiction of states that do not have nearly as strong protections and thus have degraded water quality.
It feels like one of those things you need to handle at the state level, but I know that some states aren’t going to tolerate the level of protection provided in other states.
I guess it does ultimately come to that for the strictest protections, and probably local EPAs are more in tune with the local hydrology so far as making regulations. However, it could raise a big question of “why bother?” if one state has stricter wetlands protections but has major tributaries discharging into the jurisdiction of states that do not have nearly as strong protections and thus have degraded water quality.