With new EPA water rule, Obama again takes executive action on environment
Monday, May 25, 2015 - 12:00
in Mathematics & Economics
In April 1989, a Michigan developer named John Rapanos dumped fill on 54 acres of wetlands he owned to make way for a shopping center. He did not have a permit, and when the state told him to stop, he refused. Courts found him in violation of the federal Clean Water Act. Prosecutors wanted to send him to prison.