Trump Moves to Gut the Clean Water Act

From: The Nation

“Now that the Trump administration’s performance at the COP 24 meeting in Poland has thoroughly trampled over climate-change protections, Trump is moving on from promoting air pollution to embark on a crusade to unleash pollution in the nation’s waters. With a sweeping proposed revision to the Clean Water Act (CWA), Trump finally made good on a longstanding effort that began with the famously corrupt, now-ousted EPA chief Scott Pruitt: dismantling the federal law that protects the nation’s waterways, aquatic habitats and drinking water.”

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