And it was probably the right decision.<p>The act says what it says. The way the EPA was stretching the definition thin - even patches of dry ground were being considered wetlands if they determined it was an important enough part of a watershed.<p>The agency largely got to choose their jurisdiction arbitrarily - and because their activities happened on a federal level, there was almost no political recourse if you thought you had been wronged by the agency.<p>If we want EPA to have the authority to protect aquifers, it would be better to focus on fixing the language of the bill. But I think even outside of our current political climate, not even many progressive politicians are <i>too</i> excited to hand the power back to a federal agency that largely only pestered their constituencies.