The Marianas Public Land Trust board of trustees has questioned the authority of the previous Department of Public Land administration for several actions, including granting the use of $500,000 for the Garapan Revitalization Project.
The Biden administration imposed Friday a rule expanding the definition of waterways that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has authority to regulate, a move that reverses a Trump-era change and seeks to overcome nearly a decade of challenges to EPA powers, including a pending Supreme Court case.