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Tag: Clean Water Act

If the goal is to guide human action, environmental markets work better than indecipherable regulations

One of the greatest strengths of free market environmentalism approaches to environmental problems is that they facilitate the development of … More

Clean Water Act, free market environmentalism, libertarian environmentalism, overcriminalization, overregulation, Rapanos, Supreme Court, water pollution, Waters of the United States, WOTUS

The Supreme Court wrestles again with the Clean Water Act’s due process deficit

Last week, the Supreme Court heard argument in the case challenging the WOTUS rule—the controversial rule defining the scope of … More

clean water, Clean Water Act, Due Process Clause, environment, Property Rights, regulation, WOTUS, WOTUS rule

The inevitable overregulation and overcriminalization of environmental law

A four-year battle between the federal government and Duarte Nursery over the farm’s plowing of a field to plant wheat—for … More

administrative law, Andy Johnson, Clean Water Act, Duarte Nursery, Endangered Species Act, McKittrick Policy, overcriminalization, overregulation

Has Justice Kennedy tied EPA’s hands on WOTUS?

Is EPA tied to Justice Kennedy’s mushy test for Clean Water Act jurisdiction? No. Federalism, the fact that it is a criminal statute, and Kennedy’s acknowledgment that the statute is hopelessly vague all justify EPA substantially narrowing bureaucrats’ authority.

Clean Water Act, Justice Kennedy, Rapanos, Rapanos v United States, Supreme Court, WOTUS, WOTUS rule

Executive order on WOTUS signals start of Clean Water Act reform

The President’s WOTUS executive order has begun the process for reforming the Clean Water Act, so that fewer people find themselves in the nightmare experienced by a Wyoming property owner threatened with $20 million in fines for building a pond.

Andy Johnson, Andy Johnson v EPA, Clean Water Act, Executive Order, President Trump, Waters of the United States, WOTUS, WOTUS executive order, WOTUS rule, Wyoming pond

Private environmental enforcement is no substitute for property rights

Private environmental enforcement has gone far beyond traditional nuisance principles and encourages abusive litigation.

attorney's fees, citizen suits, Clean Water Act, extortion by litigation, libertarian environmentalism, nuisance, nuisance suits, policing for profit, private environmental enforcement

Bureaucracy for bureaucracy’s sake

Earlier this week, the Boston Globe reported on the bureaucratic nightmare that a New Hampshire retailer experienced with he caught the … More

Andy Johnson v EPA, bureaucracy, bureaucrats, Clean Water Act, CWA, Johnson v EPA, libertarian environmentalism, overcriminalization, overregulation, permit, regulation

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