The Environmental Protection Agency removed federal protections for a majority of the country’s wetlands on Tuesday to comply with a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
stupid SCOTUS
It’s not only ludicrous, it’s straight up suicidal.
Developing wetlands will literally kill us.
But it will make a handful of psychopaths rich, and that’s the only thing that matters now.
You’ve gotta be kidding. Wtf. Isn’t there anyone who can effectively fight to maintain our environment?
Here’s the actual SCOTUS decision for anyone interested: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-454_4g15.pdf
As far as I can tell, they’re basically altering jurisdictional protections of certain bodies of water under the 1972 Clean Water Act. It was said before that wetlands were federally protected as long as the wetlands had a continuous surface connection to a stream, river, lake, or ocean (aka an ecologically significant nexus), and were therefore considered “Waters of the United States” under federal protection through the EPA. As it sits now, it seems that states are responsible for determining how to protect a body of water that doesn’t fall under the federal classification.
This all started because so yahoo in Idaho bought land to build a house, and started filling dirt in the wetlands but was stopped by the EPA. He argued that no, it’s his property, and the waters aren’t protected. SCOTUS agreed with yahoo. This ain’t good.
Mark my words, some supposedly far-left groups with ulterior motives are going to use this news to supposedly prove that Biden and the Democrats are anti-environment even though this has nothing to do with him and rather everything to do with our right-wing Supreme Court.
There have been a lot of Anti-Biden and anti-Democrat posts lately coming from the Left, and nearly all of them are misinformation campaigns from Republican or Russian sponsored groups trying to cause confusion and apathy going into the upcoming 2024 elections.
Also this is just one of an endless stream of awful Supreme Court rulings that all could have been avoided if only people got off their asses 6 years ago and went out to vote.
Awesome, fuck this shit. Scotus shouldn’t be allowed to do this
