As someone who grew up in Southwest Colorado, Ayden Crosby's great reporting on Silverton's efforts to grapple with wetlands issues after Sackett v. EPA hits close to home and highlights the impacts on local communities who are wrestling with these issues in the wake of the regulatory vacuum created by the Supreme Court's curtailment of Clean Water Act protections.
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The Supreme Court's Recent Clean Water Act Decision Forces Local Jurisdictions to Tackle Wetlands Issues
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"[S]small towns like Silverton, the population of which is approximately 700, are having to take the fate of their wetlands into their own hands. This one development in one small Colorado town illustrates just how difficult these decisions can be — and how they can roil a community."
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