- Mar 11, 2015
- 89,197
- 63,126
- 3,645
The Trump administration moved Tuesday to roll back an Obama administration policy that protected more than half the nation's streams from pollution but drew attacks from farmers, fossil fuel companies and property-rights groups as federal overreach.
The 2015 regulation sought to settle a debate over which waterways are covered under the Clean Water Act, which has dragged on for years and remained murky despite two Supreme Court rulings. President Donald Trump issued an executive order in February instructing the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to rescind or revise the Obama rule, which environmentalists say is essential to protecting water for human consumption and wildlife.
Trump administration moves to withdraw clean-water rule
Yay! Trump is keeping his promises. Lookee here, he ended more pesky regulations that stop businesses from creating jobs. We don't need water, it's more important that the local mine can dump all it's waste into our water source so we have nothing to drink. Hell, humans don't need no steenking water that's fake science just like climate change. Those liberals need to quit telling us we need to drink water in order to live. That's just not true. After all, Donald Trump says the argument for clean drinking water is just another way those liberals want to increase government. Who is the government to tell me I need to drink water?