Developers, not farmers, get biggest hit from wetlands rule

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump often points to farmers as some of the biggest winners from the administration’s proposal last month rolling back federal protections for wetlands and waterways across the country.
But under longstanding federal law and rules, farmers and farmland already are exempt from most of the wetlands rules that the Trump administration is targeting.
Government figures suggest that developers, not farmers, would get more regulatory relief under the prop