• Rapanos v. United States, 547 U.S. 715 (2006), was a United States Supreme Court case challenging federal jurisdiction to regulate isolated wetlands under...
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  • Rapanos may mean: Rapanos v. United States, a 2006 United States Supreme Court case Vassilis Rapanos, the Finance Minister of Greece in June 2012 This...
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    permit from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. Rapanos v. United States resulted in a 2006 Supreme Court decision with five justices concurring...
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    version" of the saying in a footnote to his 2006 plurality opinion in Rapanos v. United States: In our favored version, an Eastern guru affirms that the earth...
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  • the EPA's and Corps' rule-making. The 2006 Supreme Court case Rapanos v. United States consolidated two cases that raised the question of whether wetlands...
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    Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters. President Richard...
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  • United States v. Bestfoods, 524 U.S. 51 (1998), is a United States corporate law and environmental law case in which the Supreme Court of the United States...
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  • Guam v. United States, 593 U.S. ___ (2021), was a U.S. Supreme Court case dealing with a dispute on fiscal responsibility for environmental and hazardous...
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  • intrastate wetlands as waters of the United States. This ruling was effectively revised in Rapanos v. United States (2006), in which the Court adopted a...
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    Hanousek v. United States, 176 F.3d 1116 (9th Cir. 1999), was a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which held that ordinary...
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    The Clean Air Act (CAA) is the United States' primary federal air quality law, intended to reduce and control air pollution nationwide. Initially enacted...
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    waters. Since Rapanos, the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have attempted to define protected waters in the context of Rapanos through the 2015...
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    (2006) Rapanos v. United States (2006) County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund (2020) Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (2023) Union Elec. Co. v. EPA...
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    No net loss wetlands policy (category United States-centric)
    Decision in Rapanos v. United States & Carabell v. United States" (PDF). Retrieved 2 May 2011.[dead link] Supreme Court of the United States. "Solid Waste...
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  • Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that set...
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    indicated in two U.S. Supreme Court decisions: "Carabell v. United States" and "Rapanos v. United States". However, because authority under the Act is limited...
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    the United States | United States Department of Justice". www.justice.gov. 2024-03-04. Retrieved 2024-03-25. "Office of Public Affairs | United States Reaches...
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    conservative wing of the court on Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon and Rapanos v. United States. Alito also dissented in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld alongside Justices Scalia and...
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  • decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States: A reexamination of the Marks doctrine after Rapanos v. United States" (PDF). Suffolk University Law Review...
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    Justice Kennedy's concurrence in the Supreme Court's decision in Rapanos v. United States. The case was remanded to the Corps to reconsider whether such...
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    Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (category Acts of the 117th United States Congress)
    Infrastructure Law (BIL), (H.R. 3684), is a United States federal statute enacted by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe...
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