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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for the anti-environmentalists here:  if in say 10 years it’s clear this ruling has led to further destruction of fragile ecosystems and more polluted waterways, etc, will you shrug your shoulders and say oh well, too bad, not my problem? Truly curious if you just don’t care about nature or you think that more pollution is ok to accept in order to ward off what you perceive as over regulation. [/quote]

I would expect the legislative and executive branches to fix the problem in a constitutionally permissible way. Failing that, I’ll vote for the people that would fix the problem. And the states have nearly unlimited authority to protect the environment within their jurisdictions. [/quote]

The problem with giving states all the control is that if your state is downstream from a state that doesn't care about water quality, you're out of luck.  Waterways and wetlands do not know about or care about man-made borders, they only follow the laws of physics and fluid dynamics.  That's why it makes more sense for this to be regulated at a federal level.[/quote]

Not as big of an issue as you would think. With notable exceptions, the states tend to get redder as you flow down the watershed.

It can still be regulated federally. [/quote]

It’s not just about differences between states, though. It’s driven by a few greedy interest groups that have outsized influence in almost every state. This is something that has been pushed by commercial and real estate developers and agriculture interests to allow them to fill and develop wetlands, allow more polluted runoff in them, etc. as if all that doesn’t eventually make it into navigable waterways and public water supplies. A natural savannah that serves as a big sponge holding stormwater so it doesn’t all immediately flow into a river or bay is a great benefit to any watershed for flood control and water quality. These a**holes want to develop them and pollute them and that will increase flood risk and pollution throughout the watersheds. Even blue states are suckers for developers and agribusinesses. [/quote]

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