ENVIRONMENT - A Rough Year for EPA in Court Ends on an Undeserved Upbeat Note

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has had a pretty rough 2012 in federal court. A number of lower federal courts (we detail here, here, and here) reined in the agency's efforts to expand its authority, and in March, the Supreme Court in Sackett v. EPA unanimously held that the Clean Water Act doesn't preclude judicial review of EPA compliance orders.

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