How wet must a wetland be to have federal protections in post-Sackett US?
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Gold, Adam C.
署名单位：
Environmental Defense Fund
刊物名称：
SCIENCE
ISSN/ISSBN：
0036-9570
DOI：
10.1126/science.adp3222
发表日期：
2024-09-27
页码：
1450-1453
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摘要：
In 2023, the US Supreme Court's majority ruled in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency that only wetlands that are indistinguishable from federally protected waters due to a continuous surface connection are federally protected. This study estimates the potential impact of interpretations of the ruling on federal wetlands protections, using a qualitative measure of wetland wetness as a proxy for the new requirement. An estimated area ranging from similar to 17 million acres (19%) to nearly all 90 million acres of nontidal wetlands in the conterminous United States could be without federal protections, and variability in state protections creates hotspots of risk. The high-level estimates provided here represent a first step toward understanding the long-term impacts of Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency on federal wetlands protections and highlight the uncertainty introduced by the ruling.