Supreme Court Guts Clean Water Act

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : "I do not see the Supreme Court's decision as an imminent threat to environmental regulations adopted in other contexts," Minoli said.
33% : Harvard Law professor Richard J. Lazarus is scathing:Justice Antonin Scalia died more than seven years ago, but the Supreme Court's decision in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agencyon Thursday shows that this is the "Scalia Court" far more so than when he was alive.
26% : The ruling arrives almost a year after the court's conservative majority made the worst fears of environmentalists a reality in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, which severely curtailed the ability of the nation's environmental laws to protect public health and welfare.

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