The Environmental Protection Agency removed federal protections for a majority of the country’s wetlands on Tuesday to comply with a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Nah, they’re just probably the most biologically diverse ecosystems, they only provide somewhere for floodwaters to land and filter them back into the local water system, and they absorb a stupid about of carbon out of the atmosphere, among other useful functions. So yeah, no big deal.