An environmentalist can sue a developer over its decision to fill a wetland in southeastern Georgia because she adequately alleged harm to her aesthetic interest in the wetland, the Eleventh Circuit said in a Thursday ruling tossing the dismissal of the lawsuit.
Jane Fraser and two environmental groups sued Sea Island Acquisition LLC after it filled a wetland near its hotel in Glynn County. The developer violated the Clean Water Act’s permitting process because it filled the wetland for landscaping, not to build a commercial structure, the lawsuit says. The group wants Sea Island to restore the wetland, pay civil ...
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