High Court’s Sackett Ruling ‘Bodes Ill’ For EPA’s Bedrock Legal Authorities

The high court’s decision in Sackett v. EPA to significantly narrow the reach of the Clean Water Act (CWA) could have potential broad adverse impacts on EPA’s authority under other bedrock environmental laws, environmental lawyers say, pointing to a range of other statutory mandates that could be upended as a result of the ruling. The majority opinion in Sackett “bodes ill for federal environmental regulatory programs of all stripes,” Robert Glicksman, environmental law professor at George Washington University,...