The cleanest water except not
Whenever someone mentions climate change to Trump, he babbles irrelevantly about his ardent desire for the cleanest air, the cleanest purest water. His babbling is not just irrelevant but also a brazen lie. He’s doing his level best to make our water filthy.
The Trump administration is set to continue its corporate friendly assault on U.S. environmental regulations Thursday by finalizing a rule that will allow companies, landowners, and property developers—including golf course owners like the president—to dump pesticides and other pollutants directly into many of the nation’s streams and wetlands, potentially threatening the drinking water of millions of Americans.
“This will be the biggest loss of clean water protection the country has ever seen,” Blan Holman, an attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center, said in a statement.
He’s been working on it all this time, which is why this news is familiar, but this is the final step.
The new measure will roll back Obama-era “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) regulations aimed at ensuring wetlands and streams are protected under the 1972 Clean Water Act, which the Trump Environmental Protection Agency has repeatedly targeted despite the president’s professed desire for the U.S. to have the “cleanest water” in the world.
The fake president’s professed desire is nothing but his reflexive mindless lying.
As the New York Times reported late Wednesday, the Trump rule “will remove federal protections from more than half the nation’s wetlands, and hundreds of thousands of small waterways.” The measure, which one environmental group dubbed President Donald Trump’s “Dirty Water Rule,” is expected to be fully implemented in the coming weeks.
“His administration had completed the first step of [the WOTUS regulation’s] demise in September with the rule’s repeal,” the Times noted. “His replacement on Thursday will complete the process, not only rolling back 2015 rules that guaranteed protections under the 1972 Clean Water Act to certain wetlands and streams that run intermittently or run temporarily underground, but also relieves landowners of the need to seek permits that the Environmental Protection Agency had considered on a case-by-case basis before the Obama rule.”
Dirtier water for all! It’s democracy in action!
What does he care? He can buy bottled water shipped in from Fiji.
My wife came across a response to an item online that said
Flint, Michigan – and who has been held accountable for that? The ‘invisible hand’ seems, as it moves in its mysterious way, to be rather good at protecting the powerful and wealthy while creating misery for others.
Kochs move in a mysterious way
Their wonders to perform;
They plant their footsteps in the sea,
And welcome every storm.
Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never-failing skill
They treasure up their dark designs,
And work their sov’reign will.