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The Environmental Protection Agency says its new proposed definition of what waterways qualify should give those groups relief.
An analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council finds that 85 percent of the country's wetlands will no longer be protected under the new proposal.
And wetlands, the environmental group points out, provide drinking water, flood protection and wildlife habitat.
For decades, courts, presidential administrations and interest groups have argued about what specific waterways qualify for federal protection under the Clean Water Act.
Industry or individuals need federal permits to pollute a federally protected waterway, and many farming, ranching and developer groups argue that the 1972 law has been too widely applied.
The Environmental Protection Agency says its new proposed definition of what waterways qualify should give those groups relief.
An analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council finds that 85 percent of the country's wetlands will no longer be protected under the new proposal.
And wetlands, the environmental group points out, provide drinking water, flood protection and wildlife habitat.
The remarks about the missile released by the Kremlin come amidst heightened tensions between Russia and Western countries and just after the U.S.
levied additional sanctions on Russia for its war in Ukraine.
The nuclear-powered missile, which Russia says traveled nearly 9,000 miles over 15 hours in its test, is designed to avoid defenses.
Russia has described its range as being unlimited and first announced working on it in 2018.
It also says it's capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
Many Western experts have warned a nuclear-powered missile could be unreliable, though, and it comes with a high degree of risk.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife says they did not come to the decision easily.
For months, they tried non-lethal methods of deterring the wolves from cattle in the Sierra Valley, but the wolves had become habituated to livestock as a food source.
California's gray wolf population has rebounded over the last decade as wolves have come into the state naturally from Oregon.