President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national energy emergency will destroy wetlands across the U.S. as the Army Corps of Engineers is expediting as many as 700 pending permits for pipelines, transmission lines, and other energy-related projects without proper environmental review, the Center for Biological Diversity said. The center sent a letter to Trump on Thursday stating its intent to sue him and the Army Corps for violating the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act because neither federal statute can be curtailed by his declaration of a national emergency, let alone a “fabricated” one.

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