The Trump administration is revoking an Obama-era regulation that shielded many U.S. wetlands and streams from pollution but was opposed by developers and farmers who said it hurt economic development and infringed on property rights.
Even before the official announcement, scheduled for later Thursday, environmental groups blasted the administration’s action, the latest in a series ofThe Waters of the United States rule being revoked defines which waterways are subject to federal regulation.
President Trump had ordered the agencies to develop a replacement policy that has a more restrictive definition of protected wetlands and streams, leaving fewer subject to federal protection. But Don Parrish, congressional relations director for the American Farm Bureau Federation, says the 2015 regulation that extended federal protection to many U.S. wetlands and waterways created uncertainty about where farmers could cultivate land.
The question of which waters are covered under the Clean Water Act has inspired decades of lawsuits and congressional debate.
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