{"id":30024,"date":"2020-12-24T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?p=30024"},"modified":"2021-02-09T13:32:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T18:32:02","slug":"epa-boss-plays-santa-for-florida-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2020\/12\/24\/epa-boss-plays-santa-for-florida-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA boss plays Santa for Florida developers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:18px\">By Craig Pittman<br><em>Florida Phoenix<\/em><br>Dec. 24, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So why haven\u2019t other states jumped on this? I checked with a couple of Clean Water Act experts, University of Buffalo School of Law professor Kim Diana Connolly and Stetson University College of Law professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/faculty\/home\/royal-gardner.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Royal Gardner<\/a>, who once served as the Army\u2019s top wetlands lawyer. Both told me the reason was simple: Money \u2014 rather, the lack of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No matter who\u2019s in charge, issuing wetland permits is complicated and messy work, Connolly said. The cost of doing it right is not cheap. But federal law offers the states no help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen a state assumes the [wetlands] program, it doesn\u2019t get any dedicated money from the federal government,\u201d Gardner said. That means taking on a ton of new work from the feds without getting a dime from the feds to pay for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 11.5px;line-height:18px;padding-bottom:15px;\">This article was originally published on the Florida Phoenix website on Dec. 24, 2020, with the headline, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridaphoenix.com\/2020\/12\/24\/epa-boss-plays-santa-for-fl-developers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EPA boss plays Santa for Florida developers<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, handed over the authority to issue federal permits to Florida wetlands to the state Department of Environmental Protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[68,2586],"class_list":["post-30024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-in-the-news","tag-royal-gardner","tag-royal-gardner-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EPA boss plays Santa for Florida developers - Stetson Law News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2020\/12\/24\/epa-boss-plays-santa-for-florida-developers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EPA boss plays Santa for Florida developers - Stetson Law News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, handed over the authority to issue federal permits to Florida wetlands to the state Department of Environmental Protection.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2020\/12\/24\/epa-boss-plays-santa-for-florida-developers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Stetson Law News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-12-24T18:25:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-02-09T18:32:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ashley McKnight-Taylor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ashley McKnight-Taylor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/12\\\/24\\\/epa-boss-plays-santa-for-florida-developers\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/12\\\/24\\\/epa-boss-plays-santa-for-florida-developers\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ashley McKnight-Taylor\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/83abce307c65b375cdad58d579a9a613\"},\"headline\":\"EPA boss plays Santa for Florida developers\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-24T18:25:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-02-09T18:32:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www2.stetson.edu\\\/law\\\/news\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/12\\\/24\\\/epa-boss-plays-santa-for-florida-developers\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":173,\"keywords\":[\"Royal C. 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