Illinois environmentalists push for state action to protect wetlands after Supreme Court ruling rolls back federal rules
“ is almost science fiction,” said Richard Lazarus, a law professor at Harvard University who represented environmental groups before the court.
“This decision by the Supreme Court was a really big win for those who believe that individual property rights are more important than the collective status of a piece of property,” said Clay. “They can celebrate that in the short term, but people aren’t going to be celebrating those kinds of decisions when it starts impacting their actual day-to-day way of life.
The Sacketts argued they are not adjacent because a man-made ditch separates them from a stream that flows into the lake. Yellow iris in a wetland area as the sun rises in the Linne Woods Forest Preserve, June 1, 2023, in Morton Grove. “A big argument that was brought up against , especially from the business community, was that we don’t need to do this in Illinois because it already exists in federal law. Now that that card has been thrown out, they don’t have that argument anymore,” said Clay.
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