The enviro wackos have. Farmers in some areas are not allowed to work their whole farms because some city slicker, who knows nothing about farming, found a puddle of water and called it a wet land. The green enviro wackos have taken away a lot more freedoms, than just from the farmers. How about the lack of oil refineries, because the enviro wackos have put so many rules and regulations in place it it cost prohibitive to build new ones.
How true...how about Oregon's economy? The whacko's chain themselves to dead and dying trees so they can't be cut. No matter how many times they are told that trees are a renewable resource, the disagree.