It’s an unfortunate ruling but holds out some hope that the Court will actually approve the EPA changing it’s rules. So how do we go about getting that done? Time to call Senator’s Murray and Cantwell, and pushing on them. It should be able to be done in a similar way to stream buffers. If they can’t put the roads further away, then they need to simply engineer proper bioswales into the work. It could put people to work, would certainly cost the industry, but we have given this industry incredible low costs at the tax payers expense forever. Now it’s time to ask for something back. Perhaps there’s some alternative idea to not cost the industry as much as they think. Sitting down and working this out would be a good idea. Sounds like a job for the Sierra Club and other local and regional players to me.
The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday decided in favor of the timber industry in a case that challenged the regulation of muddy water that flows off logging roads. The case was originally filed in Oregon by an environmental group. It argued roads in state forests were violating the Clean Water Act.
Amelia Templeton explains.
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