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Trump Administration Rolls Back Clean Water Protections
By Lisa Friedman and Coral Davenport
Sept. 12, 2019
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday announced the repeal of a major Obama-era clean water regulation that had placed limits on polluting chemicals that could be used near streams, wetlands and other bodies of water.
The rollback of the 2015 measure, known as the Waters of the United States rule, adds to a lengthy list of environmental rules that the administration has worked to weaken or undo over the past two and a half years.
An immediate effect of the clean water repeal is that polluters will no longer need a permit to discharge potentially harmful substances into many streams and wetlands. But the measure, which is expected to take effect in a matter of weeks, has implications far beyond the pollution that will now be allowed to flow freely into waterways.
But environmentalists warned of the repercussions. “With many of our cities and towns living with unsafe drinking water, now is not the time to cut back on clean water enforcement,” said Laura Rubin, director of the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/climate/trump-administration-rolls-back-clean-water-protections.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190913
By Lisa Friedman and Coral Davenport
Sept. 12, 2019
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday announced the repeal of a major Obama-era clean water regulation that had placed limits on polluting chemicals that could be used near streams, wetlands and other bodies of water.
The rollback of the 2015 measure, known as the Waters of the United States rule, adds to a lengthy list of environmental rules that the administration has worked to weaken or undo over the past two and a half years.
An immediate effect of the clean water repeal is that polluters will no longer need a permit to discharge potentially harmful substances into many streams and wetlands. But the measure, which is expected to take effect in a matter of weeks, has implications far beyond the pollution that will now be allowed to flow freely into waterways.
But environmentalists warned of the repercussions. “With many of our cities and towns living with unsafe drinking water, now is not the time to cut back on clean water enforcement,” said Laura Rubin, director of the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/climate/trump-administration-rolls-back-clean-water-protections.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190913
Trump Takes Ax to Science and Other Advisory Committees, Sparking Backlash
The Trump administration, however, has been sidelining scientific advisers and advisory committees since it arrived. The EPA, in particular, has drawn controversy for barring researchers who receive EPA grant money from serving on its Science Advisory Board (SAB) while adding several new board members connected to the industries EPA regulates.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17062019/trump-order-eliminate-expert-advisory-committees-science-backlash
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