US
Supreme Court Agrees to Review
Court Case on Logging Road Regulation - On
June 25, the US Supreme Court elected to review the decision by the Ninth
Circuit Court to require that owners and operators of logging roads must file
Clean Water Act permits as it they are point-sources of pollution. The
decision by the circuit court had effectively overturned more than 35 years of
regulatory precedence that considered logging roads as non-point sources of
pollution. States have been managing pollution from silvicultural sources
through Non-point Pollution Programs, many of which rely heavily on voluntary
mechanisms and state administered regulations, much like the one in Ohio. You can read
more about the Supreme Court decision here.
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