Trump Sued for Reversing Obama-era Waterway Restrictions
President Trump is being sued by multiple green groups over his rollback of Obama-era waterway restrictions.
According to The Hill:
A coalition of environmental groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, challenging a rollback of protections for the nation’s waterways.
AdvertisementThe Navigable Waters Protection Rule finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in January limits federal protections for smaller bodies of water, a move critics say risks contamination of larger ones used for drinking water.
“Our nation’s majestic waterways depend for their health on the smaller streams and wetlands that filter pollution and protect against flooding, but the Trump administration wants to ignore the science demonstrating that,” the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the groups leading the suit, said in a statement Wednesday. “This regulation is plainly unlawful. It violates the simple but powerful mandate of the Clean Water Act to protect the integrity of our nation’s waters.”
The new rule is the final replacement of the Obama-era Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule, which President Trump vowed to dismantle during the 2016 campaign.
The groups claim that this is not just a rollback of the Obama-era protections but also a reversal of the decades-old protections of the Clean Water Act.
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The EPA wants total control over water regardless of property rights. They want to control the smallest mud-puddle. They have lost their scope of responsibility and who they work for.
They are obstructionist and anti-American, but do NOT forget that it was the EPA that pumped the poisoned water from old gold mines in Utah, into the rivers, poisoning THEM. The EPA is NO-ONE’s “champion”.
WELL THE MULTIPLY GREEN GROUP CAN GO TO BLAZES. TRUMP CAN DO WHAT HE WANTS SINCE HE IS PRESIDENT. LESS RESTRICTIONS FOR EVERYONE.!
Sorry …protecting a little fish is if less importance than giving water to farmers to irrigate their fields
That was perhaps the onerous of all of the regulations enacted by stupid Obama. Of course his regulation signed on Dec. 16, 2017, allowing EVERY windfarm in the US to kill 4,500 Eagles each without fines nor punishment was a doozy too.
There is a lot of money at stake here and who gets it is reflected by who the plaintiffs are.
It’s the POTUS’s right to change or delete previous administration’s laws and regulations. I’m sure that once President Trump leaves office after his 8 years if Demorats get in I’m sure they will scuttle all of Trump’s rules and regulations even though they may be working for the benefit of our country and citizens.
I say to fight the lawsuit, send us a petition to sign, and we’ll back you. When/if the U.S. Government gets sued and WINS against a sitting President every time a law is overturned that Obama made, then this nation is in very deep dodo!! We can’t have these people CONTROLLING GOVERNMENT!! End of story.
Obama was the epitome of Big Brother and George Orwell’s “1984”. Government should never control every little aspect of our lives. President Trump is attempting to give control back to individuals and states.
The ultimate rebuke to the EPA and all other power-grabbing Agencies would be to get the Congress to declare that ALL Agency Rulings are advisory only, and only carry the power of law when they are translated into laws by both houses of the Congress and signed by the President.