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Related: About this forumTrump moves to make waters dirty again
CNN is reporting that a new executive order on clean water regulations is to be signed today.
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
teezy
(269 posts)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)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!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,159 posts)He's welcome to drink from my septic tank
Rhiannon12866
(205,845 posts)The rule gives protection to 60 percent of the USs bodies of water
President Donald Trump just signed an executive order to roll back President Barack Obamas 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 Agencys 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 Trumps 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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Obamas 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.
Todays 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 Trumps 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)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.