The Supreme Court's Sackett v. EPA decision limits federal protection to wetlands directly connected to a "water of the U.S." This change could remove safeguards from more than half of U.S ...

Wetlands are places where land and water meet. They provide wildlife habitat, improve water quality, store carbon and slow water down during floods. Wisconsin has about 6 million acres of wetlands ...

Federal appellate judges seemed doubtful Thursday that a wetland on St. Simons Island is protected by the Clean Water Act under a test recently created by the U.S. Supreme Court. During a hearing ...

ATLANTA — Federal appellate judges seemed doubtful Thursday that a wetland on St. Simons Island is protected by the Clean Water Act under a test recently created by the U.S. Supreme Court.

These changes, which took effect on Jan. 1, have redefined the criteria for wetlands, allowing the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to classify Oneida Lake as a wetland. Jennifer ...

But a new panel of the appellate court appeared wary of siding with the plaintiffs again, this time in a challenge to the lower court's finding that the land at issue no longer qualifies as a wetland ...