There’s No Compromising on Science When it Comes to Protecting Water Quality in the Nation’s Rivers and Streams
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There’s No Compromising on Science When it Comes to Protecting Water Quality in the Nation’s Rivers and Streams
Derrick Z. Jackson,
fellow | May 25, 2021, 3:30 pm EDT
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With its “Waters of the United States” rule, President Obama’s administration enacted unprecedented protections of rivers and streams. The Trump administration, ignoring science and the importance of wetlands, tried to return many of those waterways back to polluters by rolling back the Waters of the US rule.