Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>With mine permits on the horizon, feds fight for water rights at the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/OkefenokeeSwamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OkefenokeeSwamp</span></a>, the largest freshwater swamp in North America <a href="https://www.wabe.org/with-mine-permits-on-the-horizon-feds-fight-for-water-rights-at-okefenokee-swamp/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wabe.org/with-mine-permits-on-</span><span class="invisible">the-horizon-feds-fight-for-water-rights-at-okefenokee-swamp/</span></a></p><p>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>-era rollbacks of water protections and a <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> case have scaled back federal oversight... Now, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a>'s US Fish and Wildlife Service is using federal reserved <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/WaterRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterRights</span></a>, a tool it has never used before in the eastern US, to try to prevent the mine."</p>