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There’s No Compromising on Science When it Comes to Protecting Water Quality in the Nation’s Rivers and Streams Photo: Alena Brozova/Shutterstock 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 This post is a part of a series on 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. ....
This article was produced in partnership with the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Two years ago, a group of residents from the rural Glades region of western Palm Beach County took powerful sugar companies to court, alleging that the farmers’ harvesting practices were poisoning poor communities in Florida’s heartland. For sugar companies, the most efficient way to cull crops is to burn away the plant’s leafy outer stalk, which sends plumes of smoke and ash into mostly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods on the northern edge of the Everglades. Some residents say the smoke is making them and their children sick. The industry disputes that claim and has sought to dismiss the lawsuit. ....