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Poison once flowed in America's waters. With Trump, it might again
Peter Gleick
As a scientist working for decades on national and global water and climate challenges, I must speak out against what I see as an assault on America’s water resources.
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the public debate and bipartisan enthusiasm for federal action to clean up our waters – enthusiasm that led to passage of one of the nation’s foundational environmental laws, the Clean Water Act, enacted by the US Congress in 1972 over Richard Nixon’s veto.
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Donald Trump claimed he’d work to promote clean water. This claim has proven to be hollow. Since taking office, the president, administration officials, and the Republican-led Congress have moved aggressively to roll back decades of water-quality protections put in place by previous Republican and Democratic administrations.
These moves benefit industrial polluters rather than local communities, hinder progress toward cleaning up contaminated water and deteriorating ecosystems and worsen public health risks.
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The Trump administration and Congress have moved to rescind every one of these environmental protections.
The Republican-led Congress has moved aggressively to roll back decades of water-quality protections
Immediately after Trump’s inauguration, the EPA announced the agency’s intention to cancel the new regulation to cut mercury pollution in urban wastewater.
Nothing that we didn't know he would do and what we saw him do to the miners.
Say goodby to all the work we've seen since the 70s. Now, all that matters is pino trump's 1% owners.
Peter Gleick
As a scientist working for decades on national and global water and climate challenges, I must speak out against what I see as an assault on America’s water resources.
...
the public debate and bipartisan enthusiasm for federal action to clean up our waters – enthusiasm that led to passage of one of the nation’s foundational environmental laws, the Clean Water Act, enacted by the US Congress in 1972 over Richard Nixon’s veto.
...
Donald Trump claimed he’d work to promote clean water. This claim has proven to be hollow. Since taking office, the president, administration officials, and the Republican-led Congress have moved aggressively to roll back decades of water-quality protections put in place by previous Republican and Democratic administrations.
These moves benefit industrial polluters rather than local communities, hinder progress toward cleaning up contaminated water and deteriorating ecosystems and worsen public health risks.
...
The Trump administration and Congress have moved to rescind every one of these environmental protections.
The Republican-led Congress has moved aggressively to roll back decades of water-quality protections
Immediately after Trump’s inauguration, the EPA announced the agency’s intention to cancel the new regulation to cut mercury pollution in urban wastewater.
Nothing that we didn't know he would do and what we saw him do to the miners.
Say goodby to all the work we've seen since the 70s. Now, all that matters is pino trump's 1% owners.
... 
