Trump administration strips pollution safeguards from drinking water sources
by Oliver Milman in New York from Environment | The Guardian on (#4YB37)
- Rollback of clean water protections for streams and wetlands
- Obama-era rules have long been targeted by Trump
The Trump administration has completed its rollback of environmental protections for streams, wetland and other bodies of water, a process that has stripped pollution safeguards from drinking water sources used by around a third of all Americans.
Clean water protections strengthened under the Obama administration have long been targeted by Donald Trump, who has called it a "very destructive and horrible rule".
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