On May 25, by unanimous decision, the US Supreme Court reversed decades of federal wetlands regulations to include only those wetlands that have a continuous surface connection to waters of the US and are indistinguishable from those waters.  Most wetlands have no continuous surface connection to waters of the US , or they are readily distinguishable from them. This will leave a vast swatch of the nation's wetlands without protection under federal law, making forested and coastal plain wetlands, wet meadows, and other wetlands with significant ecological and [...]