We had a lawyer friend who took on the state version of the EPA in Connecticut about 15 years ago, in a case where they refused permission for someone to build an access road into their house because there was a puddle in the ground. The lawyer won, and was awarded a million and a half to split with the owner.
We know someone down the hill from us in Vermont who planned to move their ancient house back a hundred more feet from the road, so the headlights would glare into their windows and some car coming down the hill wouldn’t crash into the house. But the town had put a culvert under a class 4 dirt road that ran just above their house, and the water had collected where they wanted to go. Some “wetlands” plant had started to grow in the puddle. Permission refused. This was a small “wetland” that had been caused by the recently installed culvert, and which they would have moved just a little further down the slope.
These regulators are NUTS.
They aren't exactly nuts as much as they are on a mission to spread their religion of Gaia worship. The armies of environmental bureaucrats who have studied 'opinion' and absolutely believe in global warming wetland sanctity and human evils are embedded in all departments of ecology, environment, planning, permitting and zoning. They now control water boards, shoreline management committees, storm water run off departments, traffic management and eventually, human housing administration where they hope to design and dictate where and how everyone will live.