2024 Legal Spotlight: Waters of the U.S.
With your Southeast Regional Ag News, I am Haylie Shipp. This is the Ag Information Network.
Legal issues. It’s part of business and it’s no different in agriculture. During this week’s programming, we’re talking about a few of the top priority legal issues to keep an eye on here in 2024 according to the Ag Law Center.
Yesterday we talked about the Endanged Species Act. Today, one that you knew had to be on the list. Waters of the U.S. or WOTUS. Harrison Pittman is director of the Ag Law Center…
“I will keep a good eye on that one. That whole issue is important. But the traditional part of it, like the EPA Corps of Engineers’ jurisdiction over what is The Waters of the United States will remain important. The part that I would watch is what is happening in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Sackett case that came out in the spring of last year because I think that triggers activity in state proposals that cut both ways.”
We.ll keep talking about these issues this week in your Southeast Regional Ag News. We’ve got two of the biggies behind us: the Endangered Species Act and Waters of the U.S. Still coming up: California’s Proposition 12 and foreign land ownership.
