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Trump Rolls Back Landmark Water Protections
September 12, 2019 at 4:10 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 135 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2019/09/12/trump-rolls-back-landmark-water-protections/
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The Trump administration on Thursday announced the repeal one of the Obama eras most sweeping environmental rules a set of pollution protections for small streams and wetlands that had riled up opposition from coal miners, home developers, farmers and oil and gas drillers, Politico reports.
The action creates instant doubts about the legal status of myriad seasonal or isolated wetlands and thousands of miles of waterways, including vast swaths of the arid West. And it clears the way for the Environmental Protection Agency to finish a follow-up regulation in the coming months that could leave most of the nations wetlands without any federal safeguards.
CNBC: Environmental groups condemned the move, claiming that loosening restrictions will substantially harm the countrys sources of safe drinking water.
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applegrove
(118,778 posts)try and preserve wetlands. Just saw two of their ads on the tv in canada. We could split off hunters with this action. Along with people who hydrate. That is pretty much everyone.
Submariner
(12,509 posts)Can someone inform please Trump so he will attempt to beat Obama's record?
Lacking that, can the U.S. Secret Service make sure each table top in Trump's private bedroom has a .38 caliber Police Special in case The Donald has his true to form Hitler moment.
This is just another racist in your face and own the libs moment for that sack of dung.
applegrove
(118,778 posts)reversed. He's sick.
gohuskies
(1,157 posts)What a lowdown corrupt administration. Poison the environment and hasten making the planet uninhabitable.
GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,995 posts)BootinUp
(47,186 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(18,870 posts)We lived in Spokane. The Spokane River was so polluted you couldn't eat the fish.
We used to drive to Nothern Idaho and that was big mining and logging area. There were pulp mills. The poison from the mills poured into the creeks. The creeks ran white and everything on both sides was dead.
It isn't like that now. The Spokane runs clean and people can fish and enjoy the river. The water in the creeks in Idaho are clean and beautiful.
Do we really want to go back to the 50's?
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)c-span is covering it.