Climate Change
When a Retired Scientist Suggested Virginia Weaken Wetlands Protections, the State Said, No Way
After the Supreme Court weakened federal protection of wetlands last year, a Trump transition team member from Fairfax County urged the state to follow suit. But Virginia’s top environmental regulator stood his ground.
A little over a year after the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed the range of wetlands the federal government can protect, a Virginia board turned down a petition that would have similarly limited local officials from regulating certain wetlands within the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
When a Retired Scientist Suggested Virginia Weaken Wetlands Protections, the State Said, No Way