Streams And Lakes Have Rights, A County Decided. Now They’re Suing Fla.
"A novel lawsuit is taking advantage of a local ‘rights of nature’ measure passed in November in effort to protect wetlands".
Source: Guardian, 05/05/2021
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"Biden Races Courts For Chance To Torpedo Trump Water Rule"
"Key lawsuits that could define the reach of the Clean Water Act are working their way through federal courts — despite Biden administration attempts to stop them so it can craft its own regulations. The cases concern what waterways and wetlands qualify for federal protections, a question that has befuddled judges for two decades."
Source: E&E News, 04/29/2021
"Major Everglades Restoration Project To Break Ground This Year"
"A key project in the restoration of the Everglades moved forward Thursday with the signing of an agreement between Florida and the federal government to construct a huge reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee."
Source: South Fla. Sun-Sentinel, 04/23/2021
Controversial $2.5B Oil Terminal Moves Forward In Plaquemines Parish
"Export terminal would be built on slave cemetery, emit 566,466 tons of greenhouse gases per year".
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 04/21/2021
"Drought and Abundance in the Mesopotamian Marshes"
"Once vengefully drained by Saddam Hussein, the wetlands in southeastern Iraq have since been partially restored. Now the region and its isolated settlements face a new set of challenges."
"On my most recent visit to the Mesopotamian marshes, in March, I arrived at Sayeed Hitham’s for breakfast. The pandemic had kept me away for more than a year.
The sun was just rising, the sky pink and golden. Hana, Hitham’s wife, stood smiling near the door to their reed house. “Tea is ready, bread is ready,” she said. “Come on in.”
Source: NYTimes, 04/13/2021
"U.S. Army Corps Suspends Wetlands Permit For Polymet Copper Mine"
"A federal regulator has suspended the permit it issued to PolyMet Mining Corp. to fill or dredge more than 900 acres of wetland for Minnesota's first copper mine, handing a victory to the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa."
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, 03/22/2021
"Clean Water Act: Trump Rule Imperils More Than 40,000 Waterways"
"More than 70% of U.S. waterways reviewed under a controversial Trump-era rule could be permanently damaged after they were not afforded federal protection, according to Army Corps of Engineers data obtained and reviewed by E&E News."
Source: E&E News, 03/22/2021
Overlooked: Indigenous People Could Lead Global Plan to Conserve Nature
"Dozens of countries are backing an effort that would protect 30 percent of Earth’s land and water. Native people, often among the most effective stewards of nature, have been disregarded, or worse, in the past."
Source: NYTimes, 03/12/2021
Arizona Legislature Resists Attempts To Protect Groundwater And Rivers
"The Arizona Legislature has taken up a range of water-related measures this year, but some bills that would strengthen the state’s water rules to protect declining groundwater and desert streams have run into opposition and have failed to move forward."
Source: Arizona Republic, 03/11/2021
'Piecing Together A Broken Heart': Tribes Rebuild Territories They Lost
"More than six decades after a 1,705-acre patchwork of meadows, wetlands and timberland in southern Oregon was taken from the Klamath Tribes, the Native American community has found its way back to the territory – by way of the real estate market."
Source: Guardian, 02/22/2021
