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The Devel(opment) Is in the Details
Bush admin finalizes development-friendly wetlands rules |
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01 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 6:21 AM on 01 Apr 2008 The Bush administration has finalized rules for wetlands development that encourage developers to restore or create new wetlands when old ones are destroyed, sometimes far from the original site. While it sounds innocent enough on its face, opponents of the controversial approach say that natural streams and wetlands are more complex than simply wet places, and they're d ... |
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| Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, news, United States, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics) |
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