{"id":99712,"date":"2023-05-27T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/opinion-sackett-ruling-is-a-victory-for-juneau-and-all-of-alaska\/"},"modified":"2023-05-27T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T20:21:00","slug":"opinion-sackett-ruling-is-a-victory-for-juneau-and-all-of-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-sackett-ruling-is-a-victory-for-juneau-and-all-of-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Sackett ruling is a victory for Juneau and all of Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thrilled to see the U.S. Supreme Court rule in favor of private property rights, and against federal regulatory overreach, in this week&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/22pdf\/21-454_4g15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sackett vs. EPA decision<\/a> that limited the scope of the Waters of the United States to only year-round connected bodies of water.<\/p>\n<p>Gaining a unanimous ruling in any court has proven near-impossible recently, given the state of the judiciary and the politics behind it. Sackett had all nine Supreme Court justices agree: the EPA exceeded its authority and must be reined in.<\/p>\n<p>This ruling is a massive victory for Juneau and all of Alaska, as we have more WOTUS-eligible land in Alaska than any other state. Our 12,000 rivers, three million lakes, and expansive shorelines fall under WOTUS. There is now clarity that non-contiguous, seasonal waters do not fall under WOTUS. This ruling will make developing these properties much more certain going forward in Juneau and across the state.<\/p>\n<p><em>PeggyAnn McConnochie,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Juneau<\/em><\/p>\n<p><ins><em>&#8226; Columns, My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire. Have something to say? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/have-something-to-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&rsquo;s how to submit a My Turn or letter.<\/a> <\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thrilled to see the U.S. Supreme Court rule in favor of private property rights&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-99712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99712"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=99712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}