Trump Scraps Obama's Controls That Stopped Pollution From Being Dumped in Streams
Source: dailybeast-Reuters
Published Jan. 23, 2020 5:22AM ET REUTERS
The Trump administration will strip away environmental protections for streams and wetlands Thursday when it finalizes the rollback of Obama-era rules that stopped pollutants from being dumped into the nations bodies of water. The New York Times reports Trumps new rule will be implemented in the coming weeks and will remove federal protections from more than half of the nations wetlands, and hundreds of thousands of waterways. It will allow farmers to dump toxic substances such as pesticides and fertilizers into those waterways, and allow property developers to destroy wetlands for construction projects. Blan Holman, a lawyer specializing in federal water policy at the Southern Environmental Law Center, said: This puts drinking water for millions of Americans at risk of contamination from unregulated pollution. Trump has previously condemned the regulations as horrible, destructive and one of the worst examples of federal overreach.
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Doesn't the MAGA crowd care about the health of their families???????????????
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Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)If they knew a liberal would have to smell their breath.
I can't remember who said it, but it's 100% true.
atreides1
(16,100 posts)I wouldn't piss on any of them if they were on fire...a spritz of gasoline maybe...
bucolic_frolic
(43,405 posts)it's like hitting yourself in the head again and again and asking why does it hurt so much
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Will become really popular!
Just another reason to vote!
dalton99a
(81,656 posts)Ohioboy
(3,248 posts)Republicans are all about the short term without a thought to the future. Vote 'em out!
Bayard
(22,184 posts)Can they regulate these atrocities themselves?
I really, truly, hate this man. Once he's in prison, he should be served this water everyday.
bluestarone
(17,093 posts)Going to be REALLY BUSY!!! undoing the undoing!
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)I wouldn't have taken a cruise on the Milwaukee River in the 60s and 70s.
The Old Third Ward is nice.
It would be a shame if something happened to it!
You voted for this!
catbyte
(34,501 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Traildogbob
(8,856 posts)For the Top GOP donors that pay no taxes. God approves.
keithbvadu2
(36,981 posts)Why bother?
packman
(16,296 posts)didn't dear and glorious leader say, just a few weeks back, that America had the cleanest air and the cleanest water?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,335 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)sakabatou
(42,186 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,484 posts)the consequences of ending clean water and air regulations?