Civil Works Chief Eyes Novel Wetland Protection Measures Post-Sackett

Michael Connor, assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, says the Biden administration is thinking “differently” about new authorities it might be able to use to bolster wetland protections in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Sackett decision, saying EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers are evaluating options to do so. “We’ve got to think a little bit more differently post- Sackett ,” Connor told the University of Iowa’s Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative April 5, because regardless...