The move delivers a major win for the agriculture, homebuilding, mining, and oil and gas industries.
The Trump administration Thursday released its long-promised regulation to remove millions of miles of streams and roughly half the country’s wetlands from federal protection, the largest rollback of the Clean Water Act since the modern law was passed in 1972.
Those industries had fiercely fought an Obama-era regulation that cemented broad protections for headwater streams and certain wetlands. President Trump lambasted that rule on the campaign trail in 2016 and his administration repealed it last year. “Today’s announcement brings us a step closer to clean water regulations that are clear and consistent," Marty Durbin, head of U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Global Energy Institute, said in a statement."The new rule distinguishes between waters that are regulated by the federal government and those that are regulated by the states, making it easier for businesses, states and local governments to understand their obligations.
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