The Trump administration unveiled a rewrite of an Obama-era clean water rule Thursday, setting a narrower definition for which waters are covered under federal protections.
The new rule, which will replace the Obama administration waters of the U.S., or WOTUS, rule, is meant to fulfill one of President Trump’s major energy and environmental priorities. Trump, in recent remarks to the American Farm Bureau, called the WOTUS rule “one of the most ridiculous regulations of all,” saying it “gave bureaucrats virtually unlimited authority to regulate stock tanks, drainage ditches, and isolated ponds as navigable waterways and navigable water.”
Under the Trump administration’s regulation, issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers, four types of waters are covered by federal protections: traditional navigable waters, such as seas and rivers; streams that flow into traditional navigable waters; wetlands right next to covered waters; and certain lakes, ponds, and impoundments.
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4 comments:
Thank you POTUS...
This so called clean water rule made a pond on a farmers land to be controlled by the EPA as a navigational waterway.
About time these Stalinists are pushed back!
It was an attack on property rights by Democrats.Shame that Maryland has doubled down on their regulations and that’s why there’s no developing going on.
Once again, thank you President Trump, for continuing to undo the legacy of the failed Obama administration. It's why you were elected. But I think you are going to need another four years to finish the job. Trump 2020!
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