Environmental activists, legal experts, and community leaders gathered in Fort Myers to discuss changes to federal wetland protections and what they could mean for Florida’s water.
The League of Women Voters of Lee County and the Sierra Club Calusa Group organized the “Our Waters, Our Vote: Southwest Florida Water Summit 2026” at the Collaboratory.
Speakers said changes to federal wetland protection have implications statewide.
Federal changes shift more responsibility to Florida
Stetson University law professor Royal Gardner explained how the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sackett v. EPA narrowed federal jurisdiction over wetlands…