Pruitt Just Gutted Water Protections for 117 Million , informed Trump in a happy birthday tweet

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Pruitt Just Gutted Water Protections for 117 Million People
He informed Trump in a happy birthday tweet.



The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday inched closer to proposing a regulation to replace an Obama-era rule that clarified which bodies of water qualified for federal protection.

The proposal comes more than a year after EPA administrator Scott Pruitt signed an executive action to revoke the 2015 Clean Water Rule, also known as the Waters of the United States, or WOTUS, rule. The regulation clarified which wetlands and streams could be protected under the Clean Water Act and expanded federal authority to all “navigable” waters. That extended the federal safeguards to 2 million miles of streams and 20 million acres of wetlands, securing the drinking water of more than 117 million Americans.

But a federal judge stayed the Clean Water Rule in 2015; the rule has since bounced around the courts. In January, the Supreme Court volleyed the case back to the district court level. In the meantime, Pruitt began the process of repealing the rule outright.

On Thursday evening, Pruitt said he planned to send the new rule to the White House Office of Management and Budget. In a tweet wishing President Donald Trump a happy birthday, Pruitt said he announced the WOTUS replacement in a meeting with farm interests in Lincoln, Nebraska.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/06/pruitt-just-gutted-water-protections-for-117-million-people/

[Cha]

1. May their KARMA BOOMERANG

a THOUSANDFOLD

[marylandblue]

2. The rule is widely misunderstood and has been litigated for years

The 2015 rule was in response to a court order ordering EPA to revise a previous rule that had been litigated. By withdrawing the rule, another round of litigation is guaranteed.

[madinmaryland]

3. Thanks, MOTUS for killing the WOTUS.

MOTUS=Moron of the US.

Oh, and fuck you tRump.