In Latest 'Giveaway to Polluters', Trump EPA Suspends Clean Water Rule

In a decision that critics warned will put the drinking water of one in three Americans at risk, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans on Wednesday to suspend the Obama-era Clean Water Rule, meant to limit the flow of chemicals into the nation’s waterways.

“Communities across our country can’t just ‘suspend’ their need for clean water any more than they can suspend their need for the sun to come up, which makes this ridiculous giveaway to polluters all the more galling,” said Dalal Aboulhosn, the Sierra Club’s deputy legislative director for land and water.

Also known as the Waters of the United States Rule, the Clean Water Rule was introduced in 2015 and meant to go into effect in the coming weeks, barring farmers and developers from using pollutants including fertilizers that run off into waterways.

President Barack Obama’s EPA aimed to protect 60 percent of the nation’s water with the regulation, including wetlands, large bodies like the Chesapeake Bay and the Puget Sound, and streams and rivers that flow into them.

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