The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the U.S. government can block development on hundreds of millions of acres of wetlands- even if these wetlands are miles away from waterways.
The deciding vote was cast by Justice Anthony Kennedy - who, despite not agreeing entirely with the decision, came down on the side of the Court's liberals that the Clean Water Act's regulations can apply to land adjacent to tributaries. Even tributaries that are not filled with water all the time and year-round.
I want you to realize how close this vote was, and how narrowly a path toward environmental degradation was averted.
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