Posts tagged WOTUS
ConservAmerica Encouraged by Senate’s Passage of WOTUS Joint Resolution
ConservAmerica Encouraged by Senate’s Passage of WOTUS Joint Resolution

Washington, DC – The United States Senate voted today to send House Joint Resolution (H.J. Res.) 27 to President Biden’s desk. The Congressional Review Act Resolution, championed in the Senate by Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV) and in the House by Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO), overturns the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corp of Engineers’ revised definition of “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS).   

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Press ReleaseMeredith KennyWater, WOTUS
EPA Should Pause WOTUS Rulemaking Until Supreme Court Hears Sackett v. EPA
EPA Should Pause WOTUS Rulemaking Until Supreme Court Hears Sackett v. EPA

In 2004, Chantell and Michael Sackett of Idaho did what many families do. They bought a piece of land near a lake and obtained local permits to build a home. In 2007, shortly after the construction process started, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) served the family with an Administrative Compliance Order, alleging their plans violated the Clean Water Act (CWA) under the expanded definition of regulated waters in the Waters of the United States (WOTUS).

The Sacketts took the EPA to court in 2008, claiming the EPA’s decision was arbitrary. Despite being separated from the nearby lake by a row of houses and a road, the EPA said that part of the residential property qualified as “navigable waters” under the CWA and demanded the property be restored to its former state. Failure to obtain a permit and comply with the order would cost the Sacketts upwards of $40,000 a day, an amount that would undoubtedly crush any family.

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BlogRobert DillonWOTUS, regulation