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
The high court's May 25 decision favoring Idaho landowners Michael and Chantell Sackett curtailed powers of the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers to limit wetlands destruction.
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