A 2023 Supreme Court ruling removed decades-old protections for wetlands. Now, Illinois lawmakers are fighting back. Proposed regulations could protect Illinois wetlands - WBEZ Chicago ...

Wetlands are as necessary as they are unappreciated: They help control flooding and filter runoff water, nurture plants and provide refuge to critters large and small. Among the beneficiaries: migr… ...

Illinois State Sen. Laura Ellman, D-Naperville, and State Rep. Anna Moeller, D-Elgin, sponsored companion bills to reinstate safeguard for the state’s remaining wetland resources.

With approximately 80-90% of Illinois’ original wetlands lost to development or agriculture over the years, environmental advocates say its critical to keep safe what remains.

But Illinois has lost some 90% of the wetlands it had a couple of hundred years ago, and some others have been degraded. Many of those that remain are endangered because, in a case called Sackett v.

That’s when 250,000 acres of cypress and tupelo swamp remained in southern Illinois during the last century. With nearly 400 square miles of watery snake trails in uninhabited machete country ...

Wetlands are soggy, muddy interstitial ecosystems like swamps, marshes, and bogs that often bridge the gap between dry land and larger bodies of water. The unifying feature across these landscapes ...

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When engineers reversed the flow of the Chicago River in 1900, sending the city’s sewage and related waste away from residents’ Lake Michigan drinking water, the metropolis was spared a… ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline How Big Ag thwarted wetlands protections in Illinois and Iowa on May 27, 2025. Advertisement. ... Site Map; Follow us on.