Supreme Court justices on Monday looked for middle ground in applying the Clean Water Act to wetlands, in a hearing that included participation from freshman Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
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WASHINGTON—Supreme Court justices on Monday looked for middle ground in applying the Clean Water Act to wetlands, opening their new term with an environmental case thatThe arguments boiled down to the meaning of a single word, in this case, “adjacent.” The statute says that the adjacent wetlands are protected along with waters related to interstate commerce, a term that since 1977 federal regulations have defined to include those that are “bordering, contiguous, or neighboring.
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