Thomas Kelly and Jonathan Prisk v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.

A man’s home may be his castle, but our society has come to realize that just how an individual property owner uses shared resources such as water, air, and soil affects the rest of the community. Several laws protecting these resources have beén enacted, and one of them, the Clean Water Act, is designed to protect this country’s dwindling wetlands, a vital part of the ecosystem that purifies the water, helps control flooding, produces food, and provides habitat for birds, fish, animals, and plants. The appellants attempt to trivialize this natural resource and…