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TODAY'S NUGGETS
💦 Draining the wrong kind of swamp. The Environmental Protection Agency received its first round of comments for a new rule that will redefine “waters of the United States” in order to wipe protections for the nation’s fragile ecological wetlands — from swamps and bogs to marshes and streams. Private companies and right-wing, dark money-backed groups like the Pacific Legal Foundation and Americans For Prosperity support the move, which follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 Sackett decision gutting environmental law protecting more than half of the country’s wetlands.
