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Half the nation’s wetlands just lost federal protection. Their fate is up to states. Supreme Court’s narrowing of the Clean Water Act has left some states scrambling to enact safeguards and others questioning whether regulators can handle workload
Last month, a U.S. Supreme Court decision struck down federal protections for wetlands covering tens of millions of acres across the country, leaving no regulation of those areas in nearly half the states.
States’ to-do lists just got a little longer: Decide how — or whether — to oversee building, planting and water quality in some wetland areas.
States’ to-do lists just got a little longer: Decide how — or whether — to oversee building, planting and water quality in some wetland areas.
The state is getting a head start on the massive infrastructure buildout that will fuel the switch to electric vehicles.