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SCOTUS Wants To Drain The Swamp, Too

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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The Purpose of the Clean Water Act

Before the Clean Water Act, water quality was regarded as a responsibility of state and local government primarily. And there was a sense that state law just wasn't getting it done. So this was an effort to not just kind of mitigate the problem, but comprehensively take it in hands by requiring a permit for any discharge into what the statute called the waters of the United States.

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