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In North Carolina, a Legal Fight Over Wetlands Protections

Inside Climate News · By Lisa Sorg · last updated
A businessman in Elizabeth City who wants to build a sand mine and a soft shell crab farm near wetlands thought new EPA regulations were too restrictive. A federal judge ruled in the EPA’s favor.

By Lisa Sorg

A U.S. district court judge has denied a landowner’s attempt to prevent federal regulators from enforcing the Clean Water Act against him, the latest ruling in a set of cases involving wetlands protections in North Carolina.

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