Lawmakers in some states are setting up new regulatory programs to protect wetlands that lost federal oversight after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year. Other states see the federal rollback as an opportunity to eliminate their own standards.| Stateline
With 28 events, 2023 easily surpassed 2020 as the year with the most billion-dollar disasters in the U.S. The preliminary price tag is at least $92.9 billion.| NOAA Climate.gov