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Resolving WOTUS: The Battle Over Which Waters of the United States Require Environmental Protection

J. Froelich
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Jodie Burns, with Cattails Environmental, LLC, stands on a bridge over a perennial spring-flow in Wilson Springs Preserve in west Fayetteville.

The Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corp of Engineers have been ordered by the Biden Administration to make a final determination on which waters of the United States should be subject to environmental protection, under the embattled WOTUS rule. Jodie Burns, a wetlands consultant and stream ecology biologist, with Cattails Environmental, LLC in Bentonville, explains what's at stake.

Update: Public comment has been extended from September 3rd to October 4th. 

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.
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