Streams and lakes have rights, a US county decided. Now they’re suing Florida
by Isabella Kaminski from on (#5HA9N)
A novel lawsuit is taking advantage of a local rights of nature' measure passed in November in effort to protect wetlands
A network of streams, lakes and marshes in Florida is suing a developer and the state to try to stop a housing development from destroying them.
The novel lawsuit was filed on Monday in Orange county on behalf of the waterways under a rights of nature" law passed in November. It is the largest US municipality to adopt such a law to date.
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