WOTUS and Reed Hopper

WOTUS and Reed Hopper

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
I did a story on an issue relating to WOTUS and got our reach out from the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) which won a precedent-setting victory for property owners' rights on May 31st when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in their favor in the PLF case of United States Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes.  The groundbreaking decision accepted Pacific Legal's arguments that landowners have a right to seek judicial review when their property is designated as wetlands subject to federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act. Here's Principal Attorney Reed Hopper: "A lot of people think of us as a government watchdog organization. We started in 1973 at the request of Gov. Ronald Reagan to be a counterpoint to some of the other public interest foundations out there but our focus has always been on protecting property rights and limiting government as our primary mission. Give me your take on WOTUS. We are involved in challenging the WOTUS rule. We brought a case successfully several years ago because at the time the core of engineers was asserting authority over anything with a hydrological connection.
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