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A month after the U.S. Supreme Court severely restricted the federal government's power to oversee wetlands, the Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature handed state agencies an order: Don't give the ecologically crucial waters any more protection than newly weakened federal rules provide.
The Supreme Court in May sharply curtailed the Clean Water Act's power to protect millions of acres of wetlands.
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In Maryland and several other Chesapeake Bay states, the decision will be blunted by the existence of state laws protecting wetlands newly excluded from federal oversight.
After receiving zoning approval to set up a light industrial facility in Orange Township, Eve Energy North America is conducting a cost analysis.
Four times a year, in a small room near Wall Street, Maryland and many of its neighboring states wage a quiet but durable war against pollution from coal-fired electric plants.