Defying environmentalists and public health advocates, the Trump administration will announce the replacement of Obama-era water protections.
Defying environmentalists and public health advocates, the Trump administration on Thursday announced the replacement of Obama-era water protections with a significantly weaker set of regulations that lifts limits on how much pollution can be dumped into small streams and wetlands.
Federal data suggest 81% of streams in the Southwest would lose long-held protections, including tributaries to major waterways that millions of people rely on for drinking water. He rejected federal data that show a majority of the nation’s wetlands and many streams will lose protection, and he dismissed efforts to quantify the effect as “too inaccurate and speculative to be meaningful.”
“This rule is the culmination of an insider campaign to gut bipartisan protections that have safeguarded the nation’s water for decades, and will endanger the health and environment of families and communities across the entire country,” said Blan Holman, a lawyer for the Southern Environmental Law Center, a nonprofit public interest law firm based in Charlottesville, Va.
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