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On the recordSeptember 19, 2022
How has this law that is supposed to be protecting our wetlands resulted in the agency in charge of regulating them the greatest loss of wetlands in the United States history?
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Garret Graves
Republican · Louisiana

Editor's note · Context

Graves questions the effectiveness of the Clean Water Act in preventing wetland loss.

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