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Progressive dog

(6,917 posts)
Tue Feb 28, 2017, 08:48 AM Feb 2017

Trump moves to make waters dirty again

CNN is reporting that a new executive order on clean water regulations is to be signed today.

The order -- which is currently in draft form and subject to change before Tuesday afternoon, when Trump is expected to sign it -- addresses the "Waters of the United States" rule, which applies to 60% of the bodies of water in the US.
Trump's executive order requires the EPA and other applicable departments to review the regulation and ensure it promotes economic growth and minimizes uncertainty when it comes to regulation. The order then requires agencies to rescind or revise aspects of the regulation that are incompatible with the new policy guidance.

The psychopath is trying to make water toxic again.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/28/politics/donald-trump-water-epa/index.html
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Trump moves to make waters dirty again (Original Post) Progressive dog Feb 2017 OP
And here comes the loss of Canada as an ally. teezy Feb 2017 #1
Money over clean water atreides1 Feb 2017 #2
If he likes dirty water so much Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2017 #3
More on this abomination: Rhiannon12866 Mar 2017 #4
Golf course owners attacked clean waters rule Progressive dog Mar 2017 #5

teezy

(269 posts)
1. And here comes the loss of Canada as an ally.
Tue Feb 28, 2017, 09:17 AM
Feb 2017

What the fuck is he thinking?

A president who wants to poison his own people, and his stupid followers are cheering and celebrating like the cult that they are.

I can't wait for this dirtbag to rot in prison.

atreides1

(16,091 posts)
2. Money over clean water
Tue Feb 28, 2017, 09:18 AM
Feb 2017

Someone should redirect sewer water into the drinking fountains of the US Capitol...just to give those Republicans a taste of the swill that they want to dump on the American people!

Rhiannon12866

(205,845 posts)
4. More on this abomination:
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 06:07 AM
Mar 2017
Trump signs executive order to roll back clean water rule
The rule gives protection to 60 percent of the US’s bodies of water

President Donald Trump just signed an executive order to roll back President Barack Obama’s clean water rule. That environmental regulation was issued in 2015 to give the federal government authority to limit pollution in major bodies of water, rivers, streams, and wetlands.

The executive order directs the Environmental Protection Agency’s leader Scott Pruitt to initiate the lengthy legal process of rescinding and rewriting the rule, called Waters of the United States. That process could take longer than Trump’s first term, according to The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/us/politics/trump-clean-water-epa.html

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Obama’s rule was attacked by oil and gas developers, farmers, pesticide and fertilizer makers, and golf course owners, which claimed the regulation infringes on property owners’ rights and is bad for the economy. In 2015, the American Farm Bureau Federation led a lawsuit against the rule, arguing it puts the burden on farmers to get a permit for using fertilizers near ditches and streams. The case has been in the courts ever since, and the rule has never actually been implemented.

Today’s executive order basically puts the legal case on hold, and directs the EPA to rework the rule. Environmental groups like the Center for Biological Diversity oppose Trump’s order, and claim it will hurt valuable habitat like wetlands, which are home to many endangered species at risk of extinction.

“Trump just put millions of acres of wetlands on the chopping block, and our wildlife and waters will suffer,” Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement.

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/28/14766462/trump-executive-order-clean-water-rule-epa-environment

Progressive dog

(6,917 posts)
5. Golf course owners attacked clean waters rule
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 02:26 PM
Mar 2017

because they wouldn't be able to use fertilizer and pesticides near ditches and streams without a permit. Heaven forbid that golfers should have to play on less than perfect grass just because it's destroying the environment.
The pollution ends up in the oceans, too. We still have a huge dead zone where the Mississippi drains into the Gulf of Mexico.

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