Supreme Court limits EPA's power to address water pollution - The Boston Globe

May 25, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    8% Center

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    58% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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"The case, Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, concerned an Idaho couple, Michael and Chantell Sackett, who sought to build a house on what an appeals court called a soggy residential lot near Priest Lake, in the state's panhandle."
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-8% Liberal
"The decision was nominally unanimous, with all the justices agreeing that the homeowners who brought the case should not have been subject to the agency's oversight because the wetlands on their property were not subject to regulation in any event."
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-18% Liberal
"Michael Regan, administrator of the EPA, said the agency would consider next steps."
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16% Conservative
"The case, Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, concerned an Idaho couple, Michael and Chantell Sackett, who sought to build a house on what an appeals court called a soggy residential lot near Priest Lake, in the state's panhandle."
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-8% Liberal
"Kevin Minoli, who worked as a senior EPA lawyer from the Clinton through the Trump administrations, overseeing the enforcement of Clean Water Act regulations, said the decision would have enormous practical consequences and estimated that it would affect more than half the nation's wetlands."
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-14% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : The case, Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, concerned an Idaho couple, Michael and Chantell Sackett, who sought to build a house on what an appeals court called "a soggy residential lot" near Priest Lake, in the state's panhandle.
41% : The decision was nominally unanimous, with all the justices agreeing that the homeowners who brought the case should not have been subject to the agency's oversight because the wetlands on their property were not subject to regulation in any event.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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