Does the Clean Water Act Need to Be “Restored”? A Debate:

This Thursday I will be in Boston to participate in a panel discussion on whether the Congress should enact legislation to “restore” the Clean Water Act in response to the Supreme Court’s decisions in SWANCC v. Army Corps of Engineers and Rapanos v. United States. Other panelists will include Reed Hopper of the Pacific Legal Foundation, Patrick Parenteau of the Vermont Law School, and Christopher Kilian of the Conservation Law Foundation. Here’s the panel description:

In the 2006 plurality decision in Rapanos v. United States, the Supreme Court limited the scope of the Clean Water Act