Trump and Conservatives Lead Attack on Clean WaterPresident Donald Trump, Republicans, and conservatives at the Supreme Court are escalating a d...
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President Donald Trump, Republicans, and conservatives at the Supreme Court are escalating a decades-long assault on clean water protections. Through deregulations and cuts at the Environmental Protection Agency, Supreme Court rulings, executive orders, and bills in Congress, conservatives are systematically eroding rules that have successfully granted Americans clean water.
These changes fit into a wider attack on environmental protections by the Trump administration that serve to benefit major polluters and industry. Reduced protections for clean water will affect all Americans, but particularly in low-income communities, communities of color, and rural communities.
“It’s a callous disregard for how these actions impact people and their access to safe water,” Mary Grant, Public Water for All Campaign Director at the nonprofit Food and Water Watch, tells Rolling Stone.
In March, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said he will look to significantly reduce a significant portion of the waterways, such as wetlands, rivers, and streams, that are protected under the Clean Water Act, a 1972 law that regulates the discharge of pollutants in water. A memo from the EPA emphasized that it would be minimizing the water covered by the Clean Water Act and enforcing their interpretation of a 2023 Supreme Court ruling, Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency. The Sackett decision found that millions of acres of wetlands — more than half — are not protected by the law, meaning that a permit is no longer needed to dump pollutants or destroy wetlands by filling them.
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- Water Pollution
- Protected Areas
- Water Law
- Protected Areas
- Water Supply
- Water Hammer protection
- Water Conservation
- protection
- Water Security
- flood protection
- Water Supply Protection
- water reuse - regulations and permitting
- Water Shed Protection Plan
- Water and Wastewater
- Cathodic Protection
- American Samoa