Article 4YB37 Trump administration strips pollution safeguards from drinking water sources

Trump administration strips pollution safeguards from drinking water sources

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Oliver Milman in New York
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  • 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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