Monday 10 July 2017

EPA seeks to scrap rule protecting drinking water for third of Americans

EPA seeks to scrap rule protecting drinking water for third of Americans

The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to dismantle the federal clean water rule, which protects waterways that provide drinking water for about a third of the US population. The EPA, with the US army, has proposed scrapping the rule in order to conduct a “substantive re-evaluation” of which rivers, streams, wetlands and other bodies of water should be protected by the federal government.

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