The Trump Effect On California's Wetland Regulations
By Scott Birkey ( July 31, 2017, 1:05 PM EDT) -- The Trump administration has been busy chipping away at Obama-era regulations. As of July 2017, President Donald Trump has issued over 40 executive orders and dozens of presidential memoranda and proclamations. The intent of many of these is to remove regulatory burdens on developers, the agriculture industry and business more generally. One of Trump's primary targets has been environmental regulations, and wetland regulations in particular have been in the crosshairs. Trump has followed through on a campaign promise to revisit — with an eye toward rescinding — the Obama administration's Clean Water Rule. That federal pullback from wetland regulations may have unintended consequences in California, which is on the cusp of promulgating new wetland regulations of its own....
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