We should think long and hard before eliminating protections for more than half of our wetlands.
I do think that we are locked in a circular pattern here, and that one, we need to be more thoughtful in terms of rulema...
I am going to be looking for consensus and implementing a lot of stuff that we have authored and enacted.
the Sackett decision, in my view, has jeopardized nearly a half-century of progress under this bedrock environmental law...
I can understand why this circumstance they wouldn't meet. I can understand that.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court failed to recognize this link in May of this year when the conservative majority upende...
Thanks to champions like Senator Ed Muskie, a Democrat from Maine, ... Congress enacted the Clean Water Act in 1972.
I know we can't pass laws to tell water how to flow.
the U.S. will be giving $100 million for humanitarian assistance and that Israel has agreed to allow food, water, medici...
I think we have been locked in a bit of a cycle and not thinking as creatively as we can in the rulemaking process.
One of the things that Senator Capito and I try to do is develop consensus on difficult issues.
As a matter of science, we have heard that wetlands and more than a million miles of streams are inextricably linked to ...
Based on the information we've seen to date, it appears as a result of an errant rocket fired by a terrorist group in Ga...
As a matter of history, we have heard that this decision reverses over four decades of clean water implementation.
I think these concerns miss the point. We just had a radical, I think, a sweeping reduction in water protections.
Today, I believe the Supreme Court got it wrong, with all due respect, in the Sackett decision.
We have been remarkably successful, not entirely successful, remarkably successful on a wide range of issues.
Through Sackett, the Supreme Court has weakened one of our bedrock environmental laws, and harms will be felt nationwide...