"Public Lands Were Made Free to All"
"Protecting wild places was once a radical idea. It still is."
Source: Sierra, 09/12/2025
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"EPA Plans To Dramatically Reduce Wetland Protection"
"The Trump administration will soon propose a new Clean Water Act rule that could eliminate federal protections for many wetlands across the U.S., according to an internal EPA presentation obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News."
Source: E&E News, 09/03/2025
"‘Sponge City’: How Copenhagen Is Adapting to a Wetter Future"
"Climate change is bringing ever more precipitation and rising seas to low-lying Denmark. In response to troubling predictions, Copenhagen is enacting an ambitious plan to build hundreds of nature-based and engineered projects to soak up, store, and redistribute future floods."
Source: YaleE360, 08/04/2025
Wetlands Are Disappearing and Global Efforts to Save Them Are Unraveling
"More than 170 countries have gathered to save critical ecosystems. But the U.S. is a no-show and Russia said it will withdraw from the wetlands treaty."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/30/2025
"US Wetlands ‘Restored’ Using Treated Sewage Tainted With Forever Chemicals"
"Many of the nation’s wetlands are being filled with toxic Pfas “forever chemicals” as wastewater treatment plant effluent tainted with the compounds is increasingly used to restore swampland and other waters. The practice threatens wildlife, food and drinking water sources, environmental advocates warn."
Source: Guardian, 07/21/2025
Humans Are Wiping Out Wetlands That Life Depends On, New Report Says
"Wetlands provide freshwater, food, storm protection and climate regulation. Yet over the last 50 years, humans have destroyed one-fifth of them." "A landmark report for the global agreement on wetlands paints a dire picture of the state of the world’s water bodies that underpin all life on Earth."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/16/2025
Enviros Sue To Stop Opening Of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ In Everglades
"Florida officials have said the facility, nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” by Republicans, will open early next week and hold up to 3,000 detainees."
Source: Washington Post, 06/30/2025
Court To Hear Chevron, Exxon Bid To Move La. Wetlands Cases To Federal Court
"The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments from Chevron and Exxon that coastal wetlands lawsuits filed by two Louisiana parishes should be transferred to federal court — a decision that could ripple across dozens of similar cases seeking billions of dollars in damages."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 06/18/2025
Federal Judge Dismisses Iowa Challenge To "Swampbuster" Wetlands Protections
"A federal judge last week sided with environmental groups and US regulators in a dispute with an Iowa landowner over a Farm Bill provision that protects wetlands."
Source: The New Lede, 06/06/2025
"How Dried-Out Wetlands On The Iran/Iraq Border Threaten The Region"
"The dust storms that have choked Iranians and Iraqis for weeks and hospitalised thousands, are the canary in the coalmine for a complex environmental disaster unfolding in wetlands straddling the two countries' border."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 05/22/2025
