{"id":191137,"date":"2026-04-09T17:51:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191137\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:51:20","slug":"ny-supreme-court-rules-against-latest-amendments-to-dec-wetland-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191137\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Supreme court rules against latest amendments to DEC Wetland Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albany, NY (WRGB) \u2014 A New York State Supreme Court Judge in Albany County is ruling against the Department of Environmental Conservation\u2019s latest amendments to Wetland Act protections, siding with business advocacy groups who filed a lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The state legislature first passed the Freshwater Wetlands Act in 1975. The law is meant to preserve freshwater wetlands.<\/p>\n<p>The National Federation of Independent Business said in part about the ruling, \u201cThis extreme mandate was as ambiguous as it was unlawful, and we are gratified at the judges\u2019 decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>CBS6 reached out to the Department of Environmental Conservation for comment and is still awaiting a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Albany, NY (WRGB) \u2014 A New York State Supreme Court Judge in Albany County is ruling against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-191137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}