As can be expected, the EPA does not come out before the purchase the purchase but only upon a complaint. So the new owner depends upon the assurances of the prior land owner that the water is only short time. If the EPA disagrees, there are ongoing fines until the fill-in is removed and the site is 'RESTORED'. At one end of the spectrum, those penalties could last forever as can such ever really be actually restored to original condition!
Plank #1 of the Communist Manifesto: Abolition of private property in land and application of all rents of land to public purpose.
https://www.laissez-fairerepublic.com/TenPlanks.html
The EPA is patently UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
The Constitution gives the feds NO power or right to regulate the “environment” nor interfere with individuals’ private property rights.
Again, NO CONSTITUTIONAL BASIS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF THE EPA.
BAN THE EPA!!!!
This has arrived at the SCOTUS at the best possible time...
It will be a true final test of the “so-called” conservatives on the court...
I hope the Opinion of the Court is written by Justice Thomas.
This may be completely true, but it is completely irrelevant legally.
A 'vernal pool' is not a "navigable waterway of the United States," which is the only basis of Federal regulation under the plain text of the Constitution.
SCOTUS needs to tell EPA to pound sand.
Every bureaucrat that abused these people needs to have their retirement income seized to make them whole again. Instead, over this many years, so many are already enjoying retirement while this case continues.