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GLIN==> SCOTUS Trashes Federal Clean Water Act
- Subject: GLIN==> SCOTUS Trashes Federal Clean Water Act
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- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:31:00 -0400
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Decisions: Clean Water Act reach limited
11:59 PM | Lyle Denniston |
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A divided Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Clean Water Act's
protection of "waters of the United States" is limited to those
bodies of water that are "permanent, standing or continously
flowing," and thus does not embrace channels through which water
flows only some of the time.
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