Abstract
Just over fifty years ago, Congress enacted the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) to address burning rivers and bacteria infested waterways that plagued the United States. The objective of the Act was to “restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters.” The judicial branch is responsible for reviewing and interpreting the law, and through such review, the United States Supreme Court has been tasked with interpreting the CWA more than any piece of environmental legislation. In Sackett v. EPA, it did so using a new interpretive approach: canonism.
Recommended Citation
Jacob Wood,
Loose Canons: The Supreme Court's New Interpretive Methodology,
89 Mo. L. Rev.
(2024)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/mlr/vol89/iss3/14