Supreme Court allows Clean Water Act rules to be challenged

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The Supreme Court unanimously said Tuesday that federal decisions on whether a piece of land is a wetland under the Clean Water Act can be challenged in court.

All eight judges on the nation’s highest court voted in favor of upholding judicial review of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decisions in the case Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes.

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