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Water is held back from a lower-elevation farm (R) by a section of Highway 4 that serves as a levee road in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta west of Stockton, Calif., on Sept. 28, 2005. David McNew/Getty Images
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reduced the number of wetlands covered by federal dumping regulations, effective Aug. 29.
The change complies with a May ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Sackett v. EPA that narrowed the interpretation of “waters of the United States,” which are subject to federal regulation.
