America’s New Drinking Problem? The Trump Administration Rolls Back the Clean Water Act
Channel: That's All I Have To Say About That
Date: 2020-01-24

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President Trump’s EPA just restricted the bodies of water that the federal government can regulate to: the territorial seas and traditional navigable waters, Perennial and intermittent tributaries to those waters, Certain lakes, ponds, and impoundments, and Wetlands adjacent to jurisdictional waters. This unfortunately means that the federal government is no longer enforcing laws over many other waters, including groundwater, wetlands that are not adjacent to large bodies of water, some seasonal streams that flow for only a portion of the year,  and “ephemeral” streams that only flow after rainstorms. Here’s what the means!