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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ryan, Erin

Titel

SACKETT V. EPA AND THE REGULATORY, PROPERTY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED STRATEGIES FOR PROTECTING AMERICAN WATERWAYS

Ist Teil von

• Case Western Reserve law review, 2023-12, Vol.74 (2), p.281

Ort / Verlag

Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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Nexis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This Essay introduces a framework of three different strategies for protecting American waterways--the conventional regulatory approach, an alternative property-based approach, and a newer human rights-based approach--and reviews how the dynamic among them will be impacted by the Supreme Court's recent decision in Sackett v. EPA, which curtailed the regulatory reach of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The rights of nature movement has emerged as a human rights-based approach to environmental protection, the public trust doctrine offers a public property-based approach, and the CWA epitomizes the more traditional regulatory approach. Last Term, however, the Court unwound nearly a half century of accepted regulatory practice when it substantially limited the reach of the CWA as a tool for protecting waterways.