Trump ordering review of Obama rule protecting small streams

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press



TUESDAY, FEB 28, 2017 08:00 AM EST

JILL COLVIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday mandating a review of an Obama-era rule aimed at protecting small streams and wetlands from development and pollution.

The order will instruct the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers to review a rule that redefined “waters of the United States” protected under the Clean Water Act to include smaller creeks and wetlands, according to a senior White House official. The official briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity, despite the president’s recent complaints about unnamed sources.

Trump had railed against the water rule during his campaign, slamming it as an example of federal overreach. Farmers and landowners have criticized the rule, saying there are already too many government regulations that affect their businesses, and Republicans have been working to thwart it since its inception.

But Democrats have argued that it safeguards drinking water for millions of Americans and clarifies confusion about which streams, tributaries and wetlands should be protected in the wake of decades-long uncertainty despite two Supreme Court rulings.

Read more: http://www.salon.com/2017/02/28/trump-ordering-review-of-obama-rule-protecting-small-streams/

[ck4829]

1. Small streams? Who cares? We need to focus on big streams that do it bigly, streams that are big

like how my hands are big. See my hands, they're not small, and if there's no problem with my hands, I can guarantee you there's no problem anywhere else. I won a hyuge electoral college victory, the biggest ever, it's a historical fact. Call up Sean Hannity, he'll tell you.

[Botany]

2. We are fucked. Can we now go back to the good old days when the Cuyahoga caught on fire?

This is an unending nightmare.

[packman]

3. First they came for the water, then the air, then....

[VMA131Marine]

4. He knows that small streams flow into big streams and then into rivers and big rivers, right?

Probably not!

[world wide wally]

8. I'm sure it never even crossed his blank mind

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Coming to your local environment: tRump regime footprint

[Achilleaze]

6. the republican plan to PISS in America's drinking water

deploreable

[Ligyron]

7. They can already dump coal waste into streams now, thanks to Trump.

What's next?

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. This is his agenda. Above all, to get rid of any regulations that stop the maximum profit

being made by corporations, no matter what they do to the environment or people's lives. That's what he cares about, above all - profit.

In a preview of his first major address to Congress on Tuesday night, Trump described his plans to slash regulations and government positions and his hope that business-friendly policies will eventually help provide billions of dollars in new tax revenue to cover expected shortfalls in Medicaid and Social Security.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-trump-is-betting-the-economy-sails-1488301512-htmlstory.html