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Repealing the Clean Water Rule will swamp the Trump administration in wetland litigation

  • Written by Patrick Parenteau, Professor of Law, Vermont Law School
Many migratory birds, like these sandhill cranes, rely on wetlands for feeding, resting and shelter.Wyman Meinzer/USFWS, CC BY

The question of which streams, lakes, wetlands and other water bodies across the U.S. should receive federal protection under the Clean Water Act has been a major controversy in environmental law over the past 20 years. The...

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