Cavedive while you can...

Might not be long before all the caves are unsafe (water quality) or just dry...

Thanks to the Supreme Court "making laws" instead of applying them.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/19/real...ourt/index.htm

Thankfully it only applies to Federal regulations. State regulations will still apply.

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Originally Posted by sdenney

Thankfully it only applies to Federal regulations. State regulations will still apply for now.

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Fixed.

If one reads Justice Roberts' majority opinion in Rapanos vs. Engineers carefully, it appears that the newly conservative Supreme Court is trying to AVOID making laws. Roberts' opinion takes the language of the Clean Water Act as a layman would take it. This is how most of the congressmen who voted for the act interpreted the language. The Corps of Engineers was arguing that the language of the act should be interpreted as an engineer would interpret it. Since few congressmen are engineers, accepting that argument would effectively make new law.
We need to ask our congressmen for a new clean water act based on 21st century hydrologic engineering principles rather than on 19th century ones.