More wetlands wiped out? Supreme Court favors farmers over protections.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The high court's decision follows one in 2022 curtailing federal power to reduce carbon emissions from power plants and indicates a willingness by the court's emboldened conservatives to limit environmental laws and agency powers.
51% : Justice Elena Kagan, one of three liberals on the court, said the majority rewrote the law to reach the political decision it wanted by coming up with new ways to curtail environmental protection powers that Congress gave the Environmental Protection Agency.
48% : "You're going to see a patchwork of regulation depending on what state you are in," said Ashley Peck, an environmental attorney in Salt Lake City.
41% : More than a dozen prohibit environmental regulations tougher than federal ones.

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