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In wetlands, builders can pay to play

Pilot program allows credits to aid other sites, but some are wary

By Christine Wallgren
Globe Correspondent / December 21, 2006

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HANSON -- A new program, the first of its kind in New England, will let large-scale developers in Southeastern Massachusetts destroy wetlands if, in exchange, they agree to buy "credits" in a new fund called a Pilot Wetlands Mitigation Bank. (Full article: 1166 words)

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