A new champion for property rights movement

Published March 15, 2012 4:00am ET



What should be done about wetlands that aren’t wet and navigable waters that aren’t navigable?

These improbable conditions have become key weapons in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory war against water rights, an unexpected power hidden in the 1972 Clean Water Act.

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