Waters of the United States

In 2023, the Supreme Court made one of its most devastating rulings in environmental history. By narrowing the legal definition of ';waters of the United States' (WOTUS), the court opened the floodgates to unregulated pollution. But while tremendously consequential, the decision was also simply the latest in a long series of battles over WOTUS, and which rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, wetlands, an...