California adopts new wetlands rules to protect them from Trump rollbacks

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 17:00 in Earth & Climate

California regulators voted Tuesday to strengthen state safeguards for thousands of wetlands and streams that are about to lose federal protections in a Trump administration rollback of the Clean Water Act. Nearly 90% of California’s historic wetlands have been filled in or plowed under, and the...

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