Trump Scraps Obama's Controls That Stopped Pollution From Being Dumped in Streams

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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 nation’s bodies of water. The New York Times reports Trump’s new rule will be implemented in the coming weeks and will remove federal protections from more than half of the nation’s 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]

1. Republicans would eat a bowl of shit...

If they knew a liberal would have to smell their breath.

I can't remember who said it, but it's 100% true.

[atreides1]

2. My thoughts about the MAGA crowd!!!

I wouldn't piss on any of them if they were on fire...a spritz of gasoline maybe...

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Putting the Right-to-Life crowd and mothers and unborn at risk

it's like hitting yourself in the head again and again and asking why does it hurt so much

[SCVDem]

4. Whoever dumps?

Will become really popular!

Just another reason to vote!

[dalton99a]

5. Heck, why not

[Ohioboy]

6. Way to drain the swamp, Donnie.

Republicans are all about the short term without a thought to the future. Vote 'em out!

[Bayard]

7. What can the states do?

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]

8. Our 2021 Democratic president is

Going to be REALLY BUSY!!! undoing the undoing!

[SCVDem]

9. Hey Milwaukee!

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]

10. Of course he did.

[Totally Tunsie]

13. +1000

[Traildogbob]

11. Cancer is incredibly profitable

For the Top GOP donors that pay no taxes. God approves.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Why bother?

Why bother?

[packman]

14. Someone can correct me on this, but---

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]

15. If he like dirty water so much I'll send him some next time I get my septic tank pumped.

[Blue_Tires]

16. The Dems who stayed home or voted for Stein/Trump need to own this bullshit...

[sakabatou]

17. Who needs clean water anyway?

[sinkingfeeling]

18. Is it wrong to hope every GOP-voting family experiences

the consequences of ending clean water and air regulations?