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Supreme Court’s Limitation on Wetlands Protection Will Make Flooding Worse

A new study calculates the dollar value of wetlands in reducing river flooding. But in Sackett vs. EPA, the high court rolled back protections for nature’s first line of defense.

By Lisa Sorg

 Muddy flood waters of the Catawba River pour over the Oxford Dam, threatening a highway bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Sept. 28, 2024, in Hickory, N.C. Credit: Steve Exum/Getty Images
Roundup sits on the shelves of a store in San Diego on March 11. Credit: Kevin Carter/Getty Images

Thousands of People Say Roundup Caused Their Cancer. The Supreme Court May Quash Their Lawsuits.

By Lee Hedgepeth
A Suncor Energy oil refinery is seen in Commerce City, Colo., on April 19, 2023. Credit: Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post

Supreme Court to Decide Key Issue in Fate of State and City Suits Against Oil Companies Over Climate Change

By Lee Hedgepeth
The photo in the White House shows other administration officials and coal miners.

As the Trump EPA Prepares to Revoke Key Legal Finding on Climate Change, What Happens Next?

By Marianne Lavelle
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin (C) and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought (L), the architects of the Trump administration's climate and environmental justice grant terminations, at a 911 ceremony in Arlington, Virginia. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Trump’s Grant Terminations Upheld by Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

By Lisa Sorg
Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito attends inauguration ceremonies for President Donald Trump in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Alito’s Recusal in Oil Case Renews Questions About Justice’s Investments

By Marianne Lavelle
The most important appellate panel—the Supreme Court—has yet to weigh in on any environmental cases from Trump’s second term. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Federal Courts Divided, So Far, on Trump’s Environmental Retreat

By Marianne Lavelle
A view of a crude oil shipping terminal, where oil is transferred from tanker trucks to rail tank cars, near Wellington, Utah. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Supreme Court Backs a Controversial Railroad in Utah for Carrying Oil

By Lisa Sorg
The young plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States demonstrate outside the White House in Washington, D.C. Credit: Robin Loznak/Our Children’s Trust

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Youth-Led Climate Case. The Youth Say They Will Fight On

By Amy Green
In Washington Township, Mich., a gas pipeline in wetlands in Stony Creek Metropark. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

New Study Shows Extreme and Far-Reaching Impacts of Sackett Ruling on Federal Wetland Protections

By Lauren Dalban
A view of the Waste Control Specialists radioactive and hazardous waste storage site in Andrews, Texas. Credit: Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune

Supreme Court Takes Up Nuclear Waste in Texas

By Dylan Baddour
A view of Baker Beach on the shores of the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco on Feb. 26. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Supreme Court Puts Another Limit on the EPA’s Ability to Protect Water

By Jake Bolster
A pedestrian walks across a flooded street in Honolulu on Dec. 7, 2021, the morning after a powerful tropical storm known as a Kona Low hit the Hawaii islands. Credit: Eugene Tanner/AFP via Getty Images

The Supreme Court Let Lawsuits Against Oil Companies Proceed. This Is What It Means

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth
The state of Utah believes it should be given Bureau of Land Management lands, including the San Rafael Swell. Credit: Bob Wick/BLM

Utah’s Quixotic Bid To Wrest Millions Of Acres From The Federal Government

By Kurt Repanshek, National Parks Traveler
The Elephant Butte Reservoir near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico stores Rio Grande water to be distributed to irrigation districts in Southern New Mexico and far West Texas. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Texas Sued New Mexico Over Rio Grande Water. Now the States are Fighting the Federal Government

By Martha Pskowski
Apache Stronghold members and supporters stopped in Gallup, New Mexico, on Aug. 18. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Apache Group is Carrying a Petition to the Supreme Court to Stop a Mine on Land Sacred to the Tribe

By Noel Lyn Smith
The Supreme Court is seen on Feb. 21 in Washington, as the court hears arguments challenging the Biden administration's effort to reduce air pollution using the Clean Air Act. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Memo to the Supreme Court: Clean Air Act Targeted CO2 as Climate Pollutant, Study Says

By Nicholas Kusnetz
Bridges cross the marshes and streams of the Chesapeake Bay watershed on Tangier Island in Virginia. Credit: Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images

When a Retired Scientist Suggested Virginia Weaken Wetlands Protections, the State Said, No Way

By Sarah Vogelsong
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on June 22 in Philadelphia. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Trump’s Environmental Impact Endures, at Home and Around the World

By Marianne Lavelle

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