NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A West Tennessee lawmaker would roll back protections of wetlands in the state, allowing for more development in areas prone to being water-logged. Memphis Sen. Brent Taylor, ...

In some states, more than 90 percent of wetlands could be excluded from safeguards provided by the Clean Water Act. The Trump administration has proposed dramatic new standards under the Clean Water ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennessee lawmakers could drain many protections for an estimated 80% of wetlands in the Volunteer State in favor of developers. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Brent Taylor ...

Up to 70 million acres of wetlands could be in peril due to a Supreme Court ruling that gutted the Clean Water Act, putting U.S. homes and businesses at risk of more damaging floods, according to a ...

New Orleans — Louisiana's coast is under threat as a quarter of the state's wetlands, an area about the size of Delaware, have disappeared in the last 100 years, according to the U.S. Geological ...

A Carolina Beach housing development, Fisher’s Reserve, raises concerns about wetland filling. The developer plans to fill two acres of wetlands for the project's second phase. The Army Corps of ...

ILLINOIS (WCIA) — After a 2023 Supreme Court ruling narrowed Clean Water Act (CWA) protections for wetlands, researchers at the University of Illinois set out to learn more about the ruling’s ...

Carver, Massachusetts — For Jarrod Rhodes, a fourth-generation cranberry farmer in Carver, Massachusetts, a 30-acre state project is taking a portion of his family's land back in time. "In 10 years, I ...

Rising temperatures could tip the scale in an underground battle that has raged for millennia. In the soils of Earth’s wetlands, microbes are fighting to both produce and consume the powerful ...

Though construction and development have diminished the Everglades to half their original size, South Florida is still defined by this vast wetland. Just how, exactly, do they help protect us from ...