Research the following two statements, find current events that exemplify these issues, and provide a brief review of the laws and how they are being handled.

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Research the following two statements, find current events that exemplify these issues, and provide a brief review of the laws and how they are being handled.

1. Some environmental scholars have argued that courts should extend the public trust doctrine to protect environmental resources other than tidelands and navigable waterways. Do you agree? If courts were to expand the reach of the doctrine, how should they decide what additional resources to protect?

2. What are the policy justifications for regulating all wetlands and endangered species at the federal level? If an endangered frog species is found only in the middle of Nebraska, why should the federal government decide whether and how to protect the frog? Should these be matters for the states to decide without interference by the federal government?