The latest Trump regulation rollback could remove federal safeguards for half the country's wetlands and millions of miles of streams.
The Trump administration is preparing to further dismantle environmental regulations by vastly reducing the reach of federal protections for streams and wetlands — delivering a major win for farmers, developers, miners and oil and gas producers.
The final rule would replace a much further-reaching Obama-era regulation, known as the Waters of the U.S. rule, that had drawn opposition from GOP-aligned industry groups before the Trump administration repealed it last year.
Story continues“It was the largest federal land grab of our farms and our lands and taking our private property rights in the history of our country, and this organization showed its strength by making a move to try to do away with that rule and get a new one,” Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall said during his keynote address at the organization’s annual meeting last year.
The Trump administration argues that the federal government has long overstepped its authority under the Clean Water Act, and that a narrower definition would allow states to enact the protections better suited to their waterways. Environmental groups will also look closely at how the administration explains the impact that exempting large swaths of the nation's waters from pollution limits and penalties will have on the nation's water quality, something they say the administration sidestepped when it proposed the rule.
A partial U.S.-China trade deal that is expected to cover American farm exports, as well as a new North American trade agreement that Congress is set to pass this week, could ease some of farmers' strife, which has included plummeting prices for milk and other commodities, mounting debt and a wave of farmer suicides.
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