Court Strikes Down Trump Rule On Water Pollution

The New York Times reports:

A federal judge on Monday struck down a Trump-era environmental rule that drastically limited federal restrictions against pollution of millions of streams, wetlands and marshes across the country.

The Biden administration had already begun the lengthy process of undoing the policy, which President Donald J. Trump established in 2020 to please real estate developers and farmers. Mr. Trump’s policy allowed the discharge of pollutants such as fertilizers, pesticides and industrial chemicals into smaller streams and wetlands.

But on Monday, Judge Rosemary Márquez of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona found “fundamental, substantive flaws” with the Trump administration’s policy and said that it was in conflict with the 1972 Clean Water Act.

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A federal judge on Monday struck down a Trump-era environmental rule that allowed the discharge of pollutants such as fertilizers, pesticides and industrial chemicals into millions of streams and wetlands across the U.S. https://t.co/9WPohWsIG5

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 31, 2021