One of the changes connected to the regulation updates won’t come until 2028, which will reduce the size requirement for ...

Big changes to New York’s environmental conservation law took effect on Jan. 1, increasing regulated freshwater wetlands by one million acres, according to the state Department of Environmental ...

The new freshwater wetlands regulations will roughly double the acreage of state-regulated freshwater wetlands in New York by 2028.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced new regulations to protect freshwater wetlands across the state on Tuesday.

Interim Commissioner Sean Mahar announced on Tuesday the adoption of updated regulations to protect freshwater wetlands across the state. The regulations ...

Regulations apply to “State Waters,” including any surface and subsurface waters that are contained in or flow in or through ...

Adoption of the updated wetlands regulations have gone into effect across New York state. The regulations implement new statutory requirements under the State’s Freshwater Wetlands Act that will ...

As previously described in a Jan. 12, 2024 legal alert and a July 12, 2024 legal alert, the New York State Department of Environmental ...

Interim Commissioner Sean Mahar emphasized the environmental and economic importance of wetlands, noting their role in flood ...