Administration finalizes repeal of 2015 water rule Trump called ‘destructive and horrible’
For years, the fight over how much power the federal government should have to regulate the wetlands and tributaries that feed into the nation’s largest rivers has played out across the country.
a legal tug of war has unfolded over a 2015 rule that gave the Environmental Protection Agency much broader authority over the nation’s waterways.
Critics say the Obama rule gave the federal government far too much power; supporters countered it would prevent the loss of vast swaths of wetlands.
Court rulings have temporarily blocked the regulation in 28 states, while keeping it in effect in 22 others.
On Thursday, the Trump administration plans to scrap the Obama-era OF COURSE
definition of what qualifies as “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act,
returning the country to standards put in place in 1986.
critics say the rollback will speed the conversion of wetlands and headwaters, which provide critical habitat for wildlife and support the nation’s drinking water supply.
Americans drained about half of the 220 million acres of wetlands in the contiguous United States between the 1780s and 1980s, most of it to expand farmland.
“The administration wants to go back to an era where we are destroying wetlands heedlessly,” Robert Irvin, president of American Rivers,
The 2015 rule gave the federal government authority to oversee a wide array of lakes, streams, wetlands, storm-water controls and ditches that feed into larger waterways that are clearly protected under the 1972 Clean Water Act.
tens of thousands of acres that connect underground or through ditches to nearby waterways will lose protection.
Targeting the Obama-era regulation ranked among Trump’s top priorities when he took office.
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Trash destroys any progress Obama made, ing up the country and people, as a personal vendetta.
Of course, the evangelicals love this destruction of the planet because their ing Bible says the Lord gave them "dominion" to up everything. Biblical justified destruction of the planet. Christianity and its perverted, ed up Bible humpers.