The Trump admin working on Republican views is about to redefine Federal waterway protection’s in a effort to water them down….
Less government involvement in saving the planet ….
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday will announce final plans to redefine and thus shrink the waterways that must be protected under the law, a move likely to be swiftly challenged legally by environmentalists.
The final plans to repeal the 2015 Obama-era Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule would stymie the federal government’s capacity to regulate pollutants in wetlands and tributaries that feed into large rivers.
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler told the Washington Post that the plans will entirely scrap the prior definition of the rule, relegating waterway protections back to 1986 standards….