The fluid definition of the ‘waters of the United States’: Non-uniform effects of regulation on US wetland protections
Running Title: Non-uniform impacts of WOTUS regulation
Jeffrey Wade1, Christa Kelleher1,2, Adam S. Ward3,4, Rebecca Schewe5
1: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
2: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA
3: O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
4: Department of Biological & Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
5: Department of Sociology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
Keywords: wetlands, WOTUS, Clean Water Act, Clean Water Rule, Navigable Waters Protection Rule, regulation, geographically isolated, New York