Articles Tagged: wetlands

A new Louisiana law that rolls back protections from development in isolated wetlands is inspired by a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision that critics say could worsen flooding and destroy vital habitat.

An absentee Iowa farmland owner does not have legal standing to sue the federal government for its ‘Swampbuster’ wetland protections, but even if he did the challenge would likely fail, a federal judge decided Thursday.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking public input as it rewrites the definition of a key term in the Clean Water Act that determines over which waters the federal government has jurisdiction.

In Cedar Rapids, the state department of agriculture plans to invest $177,625 as part of a planned $500,000 project by the Linn County Conservation Board to build a wetland and improve water quality near Morgan Creek Park.

Communities across Wisconsin are testing the economic value of grant programs to build new wetlands that reduce flooding risk. In the upper Midwest, researchers found that wetlands save nearly $23 billion a year that would otherwise be spent combating floods.

In this piece — part of a series from The Gazette and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a look at how love of birds, whether for sport or food, has fueled the push to restore Minnesota wetlands that were once drained.

In this piece — part of a series from The Gazette and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a look at what’s next for America’s disappearing wetlands, and how the battle to save remaining wetlands will fall to states, which don’t protect them equally.

In this piece — part of a series from The Gazette and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a look at a lawsuit that targets the 40-year-old “Swampbuster” law that aims to prevent farmers from destroying wetlands.