The Army Corps of Engineers is continuing to issue dredge-and-fill permits under the Clean Water Act after it promised last week to quit regulating wetlands.
Lee Forsgren, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, said at a conference in Georgia March 30 the Army Corps is “getting out of the business of regulating wetlands,” and should never have regulated them at all.
The agency issues dredge-and-fill permits for construction that could pollute waters of the US, or WOTUS, under Section 404 of the CWA. The Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling in Sackett v. EPA greatly reduced the wetlands ...