'It puts our nation's wetlands - and the rivers, streams, lakes and ponds connected to them - at risk of pollution and destruction, jeopardizing the sources of clean water that millions of American families, farmers and businesses rely on,' Biden said of the ruling. President Joe Biden said in a statement that the ruling upends the legal framework used for decades to combat water pollution and that his administration will 'use every legal authority we have to protect our nation's waters.'

The four justices said the test could undermine water quality and flood control in the United States. The Sacketts have battled with the EPA for years over their plans to build a home on the property.Īlthough the court unanimously sided with the couple, four justices - including the court's three liberal members and conservative Brett Kavanaugh - disagreed with the new test announced by the court that was backed by the five other conservative justices. The 9-0 decision authored by conservative Justice Samuel Alito overturned a lower court's ruling against Chantell and Mike Sackett that had upheld the EPA's determination that their property near a lake contained wetlands protected by the Clean Water Act of 1972. Supreme Court on Thursday put another dent in the regulatory reach of the Environmental Protection Agency, embracing a stringent new test for declaring wetlands protected under a landmark federal anti-pollution law in a ruling favoring an Idaho couple who challenged the agency. Among those who have benefited are many who lost their health insurance when they lost their jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic.WASHINGTON, May 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. In addition, Medicaid coverage was greatly expanded after all but a dozen states took advantage of the ACA to expand federally subsidized coverage under the program. Young adults are now permitted to stay on their parents' insurance until age 26 copays are not permitted for preventive care and insurance companies can no longer put lifetime caps on benefits, are required to spend 80% of premiums on medical coverage and are barred from discrimination based on factors like gender. Up to 135 million people are covered by the ban on discrimination against those with preexisting conditions. Many of the provisions of the ACA are now taken for granted. In addition, the Urban Institute reported in May that ACA premiums have gone down each of the last three years. Over 31 million Americans have access health insurance through the ACA - a record high since the law's inception, according to the White House. 'To have standing, a plaintiff must 'allege personal injury fairly traceable to the defendant's allegedly unlawful conduct and likely to be redressed by the requested relief,' ' but 'No plaintiff has shown such an injury,' the court said.īook Reviews Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Rise Continues To Fascinate In 'Dissent' They would have struck down the most popular parts of the law, including the provision barring discrimination based on preexisting medical conditions.īut the majority decision threw out the challenge to the law on the grounds that Texas and other objecting GOP-dominated states were not required to pay anything under the mandate provision and thus had no standing to bring the challenge to court. Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented. The opinion, written by Justice Stephen Breyer, was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act for the third time on Thursday, leaving in place the broad provisions of the law enacted by Congress in 201o.

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