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"Eco-criminal" prison-bound?(Insider Report)
"John A. Rapanos has spent more than $1 million on attorneys, consultants and fines while tussling with regulators lot some 15 years over accusations of illegal wetland destruction," observed the April 26 Detroit Free Press. "Now, the Midland subdivision developer may go to prison?'
Sixty-eight-year-old Rapanos, a son of Greek immigrants, bought a parcel of land in 1988, cleared off the scrub trees, graded it, and tried to market it to strip-mall developers. The Michigan state eco-Soviet, acting on behalf of the federal environmental bureaucracy, accused the developer of destroying a "wetland." Eventually the Environmental Protection Agency successfully prosecuted Rapanos in federal court for supposedly destroying a wetland.
However, as Detroit News columnist Nolan Finley points out, "Rapanos' land is surrounded on all sides, and divided down the middle, by drainage ditches dug by the county drain commission in 1904. The land was tiled at the same time to further aid drainage so it could be used for farming. The combination of drainage ditches and sandy soil means the land couldn't be a wetland if it wanted to be. It won't hold water."
"I don't see any way that ...
- Rapanos: Putting the Government to Its Proof Under the Clean Water Act.(United...
- News wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing August 21, 2006 700+ words
...from the Supreme Court's 2005 term, Rapanos v. United States and Carabell v. U...been written concerning the impact the Rapanos decision will actually have on the federal...addresses that question and concludes that the Rapanos decision will greatly restrict the federal...
- The Long-Awaited Rapanos Decision Narrows Clean Water Act Jurisdiction Over...
- News wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing August 2, 2006 700+ words
...lands owned by Michigan developers John Rapanos and June and Keith Carabell. In remanding...joint cases before the Supreme Court--Rapanos v. United States and Carabell v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Prior to Rapanos and Carabell (hereinafter jointly referred...
- The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Interprets the U.S. Supreme Court's Rapanos...
- News wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing August 18, 2006 700+ words
...weighed in on the interpretation of Rapanos v. United States, the recent U...wetland cases since the high court's Rapanos decision, the Ninth Circuit relied upon Justice Kennedy's opinion in Rapanos as providing the "controlling rule...
- Justice Kennedy and ecosystem services: a functional approach to Clean Water...
- Magazine article from: Environmental Law Craig, Robin Kundis June 22, 2008 700+ words
...County v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 3. Rapanos v. United States IV. JUSTICE KENNEDY'S RAPANOS TEST AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: THE EXAMPLE...STATES V. CUNDIFF A. Lower Courts and the Rapanos Split: The Ascendancy of Justice Kennedy...
- New Guidance Narrows Federal Regulation Of Some Wetlands, Streams And...
- News wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing June 12, 2007 700+ words
...Supreme Court's June 2006 decisions in Rapanos v. United States and Carabell v. United...Agencies and those features that, under Rapanos and Carabell, may require some additional...of the Agencies' jurisdiction post-Rapanos, as a practical matter, the Corps will...
- The U.S. Supreme Court.(Briefly Noted)(Rapanos v. United States)(Carabell v....
- Newspaper article from: Land Use Law Report October 19, 2005 700+ words
...scope of federal regulatory power over wetlands. The cases are Rapanos v. United States, No. 04-1034, and Carabell v. U.S...government filed both civil and criminal cases against John Rapanos over his clearing and filling of areas on his property, without...
- Legal action.(Rapanos v. United States and Carabell v. U.S. Army Corps of...
- Magazine article from: Builder Agnese, Braulio January 1, 2006 700+ words
...NAHB has filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the petitioners in two wetlands cases before the U.S. Supreme Court: Rapanos v. United States and Carabell v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The issue in both cases concerns whether and when a non...
- Free Press names new publisher. (Robert J. Hall)
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 27, 1989 700+ words
FREE PRESS NAMES NEW PUBLISHER DETROIT, July 27...Robert J. Hall, president of the Detroit Free Press, today was named publisher and chairman...Jr., publisher and chairman of the Free Press since 1985, who today was named publisher...
