New regulations and definitions of water bodies in the U.S. have some worried the Biden administration could regulate puddles and ditches used by farmers.
Without regulations on those waterways, environmental groups stressed, the rule allowed wetlands to be filled in by property owners, damaging habitats. It also allowed for property owners to dump harmful pollutants into the unprotected waterways, which could potentially flow downstream and threaten wildlife or water supply sources.
Pictured: EPA administrator Michael Regan visiting the Laguna San Jose in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on July 26, 2022. The west, for example, gets fewer rains and has higher rates of evaporation, so wetlands may need to be near a waterway to be considered adjacent. But in places that are wide and flare, wetlands could be determined reasonably close, even if they are 100 feet away.What was once a water source for a farm in Northern California has dried up, and now looks like cobblestone.
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