The ruling curtails the federal government's authority to protect its wetlands from pollution.
By Kayla EpsteinThe US Supreme Court curtailed the federal government's authority to protect its wetlands from pollution in a decision on Thursday.
But which wetlands qualify as "waters of the United States" has been subject to some debate and past court cases. The case, Sackett vs EPA, was brought by a couple in Idaho who were told they needed a permit to fill in a portion of their property that the government considered wetlands. But the justices split 5-4 in the reasoning behind the ruling. The majority decided that the Clean Water Act did not apply to wetlands that do not have "continuous surface connection" to bigger, regulated bodies of water.
"Today's ruling is a profound win for property rights and the constitutional separation of powers," he said.
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