U. S. Supreme Court rules in favor of property owners over the Feds
Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) won a precedent-setting victory for property owners’ rights today when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in our favor in the PLF case of United States Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes. The groundbreaking decision accepted PLF’s arguments that landowners have a right to seek judicial review when their property is designated as […]
EPA has released their regulatory nuclear bomb—The Clean Water Rule
By Debra Tash When the Clean Water Act passed in 1972 did Congress intend to give a federal agency carte blanche regulatory power? Keep in mind that kind of regulatory power is in effect law making. No other federal body has the constitutional authority to make law except Congress. However that is exactly what […]
Proposed Expansion of Water Authority by EPA
WOULD EXTEND FEDERAL CONTROL TO VIRTUALLY ALL U.S. LANDS WATERS OF THE U.S. There is a proposal that redefines federal authority over the water–and thus the lands–of the United States. The impact is best illustrated by the maps below. The Clean Water Act authority shown in the first map would be extended to the proposed Clean Water Restoration […]
