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Trump administration moves to weaken federal protections for waterways and wetlands

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Trump administration moves to weaken federal protections for waterways and wetlands

By Aidan Hughes, Inside Climate News

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The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Army announced a proposal last week to further define, and scale back, the number of waterways and wetlands protected by the federal government under the Clean Water Act, a bedrock environmental law.

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Trump Admin Is Pushing Polluting Fossil Fuels Across United States

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