Clean Water Act Cases First for Alito Court The New York Times reports that more than half of the nation's streams and wetlands could be removed from the protections of the federal Clean Water Act if two legal challenges started more than a decade ago by two Michigan developers are supported by a majority of the newly remade Supreme Court. Oral arguments in the case (the first before Samuel Alito) are scheduled for Tuesday and will pit developers and their industrial, agricultural and ideological allies against both the solicitor general and an armada of environmental lawyers. The central question is where federal authority ends along the network of rivers, streams, canals and ditches. Read Reach of Clean Water Act Is at Issue in 2 Supreme Court Cases in the New York Times Posted/updated Feb 20, 2006 by Andrew McFarlane (Absolute Michigan) click to Send This Story to a Friend! Main Michigan News Page Go Back One Page

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