The Army Corps of Engineers will stop regulating wetlands nationwide after a 2023 US Supreme Court ruling reduced the scope of the Clean Water Act, an agency official said this week.
“We are getting out of the business of regulating wetlands,” Lee Forsgren, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, said Monday, speaking at an Environmental Council of the States meeting in Savannah, Ga. An Army Corps spokesman confirmed the agency’s plans Tuesday morning.
The Army Corps is required under the Clean Water Act to issue dredge-and-fill permits for projects that could pollute waters of the US, ...
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