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1. SUPREME COURT: Justices side with developers over protecting endangered species The Clean Water Act trumps endangered species protections, a divided Supreme Court ruled today in a decision that favored developers and the Bush administration in a dispute with environmental groups. The justices' 5-4 decision in National Association of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife found U.S. EPA did not break the law in 2002 when it handed a water-permitting program to Arizona without reviewing the effect of that decision on the state's 60 threatened and endangered species. Go to story #1

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