Flanked by farm equipment and a large American flag, Zeldin said federal rules about wetlands, long a source of frustration for people who want to drain them to grow crops or build homes ...

Do wetlands engineered for water-quality treatment function in ways that provide benefits for biodiversity, similar to Iowa’s ...

Further, President Trump’s EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has heralded a new era for wetlands under the administration. Down the Drain examines how these many legal and policy changes affect ...

The example (Example 8, page 12) in IRD’s Commentary on the Taxation (Budget Measures) Bill (No 2) explicitly states that the ...

Diverting rivers and draining wetlands for farming has pushed native fish, such as the iconic Chinook salmon, to the brink of extinction. Wetlands that once teemed with birds and wildlife are now ...

Wetlands across the Mississippi River basin, vital for hundreds of bird species, have been drastically reduced. The Duck Stamp, established in 1934, has funded the restoration and protection of ...

The case describes Swampbuster as unfair and coercive, arguing that it prevents farmers from draining or filling wetlands on their own properties without paying them for taking the land out of ...

They also said the old interpretation of which wetlands, like manmade drainage ditches, should receive federal protection made life difficult for farmers and limited what property owners could do ...