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August 31, 2021

Federal Court Strikes Down Trump-Era Rule Gutting Clean Water Act
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A federal judge has struck down a Trump-era rule that dramatically
rolled back protections of the Clean Water Act. In 2019, Trump's
Environmental Protection Agency redefined its "Waters of the United
States" rule to end protections for hundreds of thousands of miles of
streams and rivers and more than half of all wetlands. Six federally
recognized Native American tribes sued, and on Monday a U.S. district
judge in Arizona took their side, ruling the Trump administration's
process was riddled with errors and that allowing the rule to proceed
could lead to "serious environmental harm."


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