The state Supreme Court on Monday dealt a blow to environmental groups when it issued its first interpretation of the scope of a decades-old statute that’s supposed to protect coastal salt marshes.
Environmental groups had argued that state regulators could look beyond projects built over marshlands and broadly consider related upland development. But in a 5-2 ruling, the court said the regulatory powers of the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act do not extend to residential activities in upland areas.
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