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EPA to Reverse Trump-Era Clean Water Deregulation
13.07.2024 - 01:48 / modernfarmer.com / Dan Nosowitz
On Wednesday, the EPA chief, Michael Regan, announced that the Biden administration will formally repeal the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, a law that is barely a year old.
In 2015, the Obama administration updated the 1972 Clean Water Act, one of the country’s most important environmental laws, with a rule typically referred to as the Waters of the United States rule, or WOTUS. One of WOTUS’s main goals was to provide guidance for what actually counted as a water source. This had been a major problem, with proposals for development often being decided on a (very inefficient) case by case basis. Does a river that dries up for part of the year qualify for protection? What about one that only connects to a larger river during heavy rains? What about a pond that shrinks and grows depending on the season?
WOTUS created some guidelines for what counts as, well, a “water of the United States,” which would seem at first glance to be a fairly non-controversial idea. But conservative farm groups, such as the American Farm Bureau, eager to paint the Obama administration as overreaching, latched onto WOTUS as a possible controversy that could drum up support. This is despite the fact that WOTUS included significant exemptions for farmers; the Farm Bureau and others described a dystopian world in which a puddle that formed on cropland could result in the government seizing control, which was not true.
Donald Trump, in his presidential campaign, cleverly made WOTUS a rallying point for rural America. By 2020, he had rescinded the 2015 rule and instituted his own, called the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, which significantly reduced clean water regulation.
In his announcement this week, Regan said Trump-era deregulation was a
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