Supreme Court Refuses To Take Up Case Challenging The Cleanup Of The Chesapeake Bay.

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'The Chesapeake Bay can forge ahead with its much-needed cleanup plan, after the Supreme Court decided Monday that it wouldn’t be taking up a case challenging the rule.

The court’s decision not to take up the case, brought by the American Farm Bureau Federation and other agriculture and business interests, means that a lower court’s decision last July, which found that the effort is legal, stands. The cleanup effort, called the Chesapeake Bay Clean Water Blueprint sets a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for how much nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment pollution can enter the bay. Under the TMDL, these forms of pollution would be cut by 20 to 25 percent.

The decision not to take up the case was made by an eight-member court, as Justice Antonin Scalia passed away earlier this year. Tim Henderson, a partner at a Maryland-based law firm, told the Capital Gazette that, had Scalia been alive for the decision, the court may have taken up the case — it was “the kind of issue he was inclined to take,” he said.
Environmental groups applauded the court’s decision.'>>>

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/29/3753713/chesapeake-bay-supreme-court/

[tularetom]

1. Sounds like a good thing to me

Maybe it wouldn't the end of the world if the Senate refused to consider an Obama nominee for the court. All these 4-4 decision will revert back to the decisions of the appeals court that sent them on. A lot of them are going to come back and bite the republicans in the butt.

He should just sit on the nominations for awhile. If enough of those appellate decisions get upheld, the Senate will be begging hims to send them a nomination. At that point he can almost write his own ticket.