12-11-2018, 08:15 PM
Trump Administration Undoes Water Protections
This is really concerning to me.
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Water is key to life. The world, including many U.S. locales, is already struggling with water pollution, drought, and water delivery infrastructures that still contain old lead piping.
This new deregulation will only add to that serious problem in order to increase profits for a select few industries, in my opinion. Capitalism without conscience.
Snip:
The Trump administration on Tuesday initiated the biggest rollback of Clean Water Act protections since shortly after the statute became law in 1972, proposing to remove federal pollution safeguards for tens of thousands of miles of streams and millions of acres of wetlands.
The EPA’s proposed rule would overwrite a stricter Obama-era regulation, in yet another attack on the legacy of President Donald Trump’s predecessor. But the rollback would go much further than just erasing Barack Obama's work.
Democrats on Capitol Hill warned the proposal would undo improvements in cleaning up many waterways in recent decades — and they vowed to take a microscope to it when they take control of the House next year.
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This is really concerning to me.
Water is key to life. The world, including many U.S. locales, is already struggling with water pollution, drought, and water delivery infrastructures that still contain old lead piping.
This new deregulation will only add to that serious problem in order to increase profits for a select few industries, in my opinion. Capitalism without conscience.
Snip:
The Trump administration on Tuesday initiated the biggest rollback of Clean Water Act protections since shortly after the statute became law in 1972, proposing to remove federal pollution safeguards for tens of thousands of miles of streams and millions of acres of wetlands.
The EPA’s proposed rule would overwrite a stricter Obama-era regulation, in yet another attack on the legacy of President Donald Trump’s predecessor. But the rollback would go much further than just erasing Barack Obama's work.
Democrats on Capitol Hill warned the proposal would undo improvements in cleaning up many waterways in recent decades — and they vowed to take a microscope to it when they take control of the House next year.
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