CLEAN WATER ACT

Experts predict legal trouble for Scalia-inspired rule

Published: Friday, December 14, 2018

The Trump administration is breaking with its predecessors by using a 2006 opinion by the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia from a famously muddled wetlands case in a bid to limit Clean Water Act protection of isolated wetlands and waterways. Many legal experts don't think that's a good idea.

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CAMPAIGN 2020

Will Biden's end-oil pledge work magic for Trump?

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CAMPAIGN 2020

Will Biden's end-oil pledge work magic for Trump?

By Timothy Cama and Nick Sobczyk in Greenwire Friday, October 23, 2020

ON LOCATION

Trump offers deal to Pa.: Jobs cure environmental injustice

When fracking came to Wesley Silva's Pennsylvania neighborhood, the drilling rattled homes and gas flaring turned the night sky orange. But its smell worried him most.

By Adam Aton in Climatewire Friday, October 23, 2020