The Trump administration rolled back a major Obama-era clean water regulation on Thursday, reversing protections for certain waterways and wetlands that had fallen into a legal grey area after a series of Supreme Court challenges.
“No regulation is perfect, and no rule can accommodate every concern, but the 2015 rule was especially egregious," said Zippy Duvall, the president of the American Farm Bureau — which lobbied for the rule change."We are relieved to put it behind us. We are now working to ensure a fair and reasonable substitute that protects our water and our ability to work and care for the land.
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Andrew Wheeler speaking about "America's Environmental Leadership" in the East Room of the White House on July 8, 2019.“This will mean that miners can do mountaintop removal and fill in streams, pipelines can cut across wetlands, land developers can build on wetlands without a permit,” Southerland said. “What they are doing with this repeal, is leaving it to the states to handle it.
Can't wait for the next president to undo all the damage this clown has done.
The Trump Administration is crazy!!👎🏻👎🏻
Where’s that spongebob quote when you need it?
Oh no! Not one of the Obama rules, the world will end help
Criminal!
Obama went too far on this, he hates America
Trump the destroyer
Sad for future generations
What is this jack ass thinking what is he gonna replace it with,do he plan on making America suffer just because he don’t like Obama and mostly everyone do and not him so he destroys everything good despite who it hurt that includes you republicans
Trump and those who follow him are stupid to loose environmental regulations.
Contamination and poison water
The water protections are overkill because it’s already illegal to pollute a waterway. This executive order just gave the Federal Government more power. It was affecting farmers making it illegal for them to fill in low spots in their fields that collected water.
We’ve got to get rid of him. Now
Who needs clean air and water. Duh
Awesome...maybe we will get clean water!
Idiots
Could you have worded that with any more of a negative connotation? I think not.
The earth is our spacecraft, if someone on the ISS was allowing that to happen they would be restrained and removed.
Of course they did !
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I guess if you want your water protected you should not vote for this President & his backers.
Trump's sense of environmental preservation has all the same convictions as Jack the Rippers sense of humanity.
Thank God!! The Obama guys were SO out of control with the things that they did! Limiting land-use on private property in frikkin DRAINAGE DITCHES for Christ sakes!!
Disgraceful
Shameful. Future generations mean nothing to this administration.
Ass.
More draining of the swamp. Oh wait it would seem the swamp has doubled in size since January 2016. So much for that...
Ridiculous!! MakeAmericaTrumpFree MakeAmericaTrumpFree MakeAmericaTrumpFree
The same goverment that had the spill and polluted the water?
good thing i can rely on obamacare if the water gives me cancer
There are hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters in America excited to breath polluted air and drink polluted water to increase the profits of big business.
Is this guy the Anti Christ or what,..?
Good! The Obama EPA was far too over zealous, infringing on private property rights of individuals just because they dug a pond on their property.
It is going to take decades to rectify the damage one man is doing to our country...
Finally we can poison more waterways and get America back to the nasty, polluted place it was meant to be.
It’s only water you know...
IMPEACH TRUMP - save the planet!!! it's the only one we have.
Just when I think they can't go any lower, who the fuck needs to drink the water or breathe the air......not me
Because who needs clean water, am I right?
Mistake
Who needs clean water? We will be fine all we need is Brawndo! It's got electrolytes!
WHY ARENT THERE MASS PROTESTS!
Hey Dumbocrats, who started the EPA? The now 2nd most hated President by u DUMBOS–Richard Milhous Nixon. U Dumbos were party of Slavery, Segregation, wanted NOTHING 2 do w/EPA or Equal rights. Don't change factual history b/c w/o REPUBLICANS we wld NOT have the issues u hijacked!
We'll have the cleanest air, the cleanest water anywhere on Earth! BS bald faced lies. Why? Why? What is the purpose of rolling this back? Our water is too clean, it needs a little more chemical taste?
Poisoning water supplies to own the libs.
The Obama Era EPA sure farmers for creating ponds on their own lands... they jailed a man for digging fire breaks on his own property they should be gutted.
Just fucking fantastic! I love polluted waterways. Great for fishing & swimming! But I’m sure businesses will be responsible, just like they’ve always been!
This guy is a wack job the Republicans just turned loose on the US and they can't control him, probably never could. The US and Russian flags will be displayed,together, in the White House soon.
I wonder how this is being received in Flint, Michigan? 🤔
Why do Republicans hate their children so much that they are hell bent on delivering them a poisoned planet?
Evil !
I repeat -- and I cannot stress this enough -- the Trump administration doesn't give a damn about you, your family, your health and they certainly don't give a damn about anything that lives and breathes.
My father developed brain cancer from contaminated water. Just sayin...
Why in God's name is Trump & his EPA aiding in polluting our environment ? Can only be greed & corruption, what else ?
Because who doesn’t love more pollution.
States need to take some responsibility!
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