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good: How an Idaho Couple Wound Up Defending the Nation’s Biggest Polluters The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday morning in a case that could make it easier for huge corporations to pollute the country’s wetlands, rivers, and lakes—and harder for the Environmental Protection Agency do anything about that. Surprisingly, the party bringing the suit against the EPA is not a big corporation or an industry group. Instead, the case centers instead on an Idaho couple, Chantell and Mike Sackett, who are arguing the EPA has denied them their right to build a house and a shop on their land, which is a protected wetland. Read more on GOOD→

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How an Idaho Couple Wound Up Defending the Nation’s Biggest Polluters

The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday morning in a case that could make it easier for huge corporations to pollute the country’s wetlands, rivers, and lakes—and harder for the Environmental Protection Agency do anything about that. Surprisingly, the party bringing the suit against the EPA is not a big corporation or an industry group. Instead, the case centers instead on an Idaho couple, Chantell and Mike Sackett, who are arguing the EPA has denied them their right to build a house and a shop on their land, which is a protected wetland.

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  4. missfinefabric said: /facepalm at this. im from idaho and i love it, and i get both sides of the argument here, but for the love of everything GOOD i hope they don’t get their way. it could be so much more damaging and costly than having a home just where they want it.
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