California farmer to pay million-dollar fine in wetlands case

John Duarte, a Northern California farmer, has agreed to pay a $1.1 million penalty to settle a years-long case that started in 2012, after he bought and tilled fallow land within a federally protected wetland. “The California farmer’s case had been spotlighted by farm groups, including those concerned about what had been an Obama administration… » Read More

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