Bad news for mosquitos

America's wetlands now fair game for development

By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the government can block development on hundreds of millions of acres of wetlands, even on land miles away from waterways, as long as regulators prove a connection to the waterways.

[Italics ous.]

Chief Justice John Roberts, in his first major environmental case, came up one vote short of dramatically limiting the scope of the landmark Clean Water Act.

[It's that one vote problem. Isn't that what got us Bush in the first place?]

At the same time, property rights advocates won a small victory with a new test, authored by moderate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, for determining what land can be regulated.

[Bring on the bulldozers, honey!]

Virtually any land in America would be covered under the government's interpretation of the law, Roberts and the court's other three conservatives complained in an opinion.

[Bitch, bitch, bitch. Can't a developer make a buck at someone else's expense anymore?]

(The rest of the article is here.)