FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT of the Clean Water Act has set off a flood of recent court decisions, regulatory actions and legislative proposals that have muddied the issue of which wetlands should be protected from pollution.

The murkiness still exists even though a year has passed since the U.S. Supreme Court issued a divided ruling in Rapanos v. U.S., 126 S. Ct. 2208 2006, which sought to clarify the scope of the government’s jurisdiction over wetlands.

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