Royal Gardner says Clean Water Act ruling shows ‘science still matters’
By Philip Brasher, Steve Davies and Bill Tomson
Agri-Pulse
May 4, 2020
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Environmental groups suing over the Trump administration’s new WOTUS rule have found some support for their court challenges in a recent Supreme Court decision. That’s according to Royal Gardner, a law professor at Stetson University, who was the lead attorney for aquatic scientists and scientific societies who filed an amicus brief on the side of environmental groups in a Clean Water Act case out of Maui County, Hawaii.
The 6-3 ruling found that a CWA permit may be needed for discharges of pollutants transported via groundwater into a “water of the U.S.”
“The individual scientists who worked on the brief … were delighted that science still matters,” Gardner said on an Environmental Law Institute webinar. “The court clearly considered science in reaching its decision, and the decision itself is grounded in science.”
This article was originally published on the Agri-Pulse website on May 4, 2020, with the headline, “Daybreak May 4: Congress gears up for CARES 2.”
Post date: May 4, 2020
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