Colorado lawmakers agree on approach to protect state wetlands

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Colorado lawmakers agree on approach to protect state wetlands

Colorado will create its own program for permitting certain types of development while protecting the state’s streams and wetlands after lawmakers agreed on a method in the final days of the 2024 lawmaking session. The new program became necessary after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling withdrawing protections for about half the streams and wetlands about a year ago. Earlier in the legislative session, two approaches were proposed to fill t…