{"id":3650,"date":"2026-09-07T04:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T08:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2026-09-07T04:18:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T08:18:31","slug":"trumps-new-waters-of-the-u-s-proposal-takes-sledgehammer-to-clean-water-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3650","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s New \u201cWaters Of The U.S.\u201d Proposal Takes Sledgehammer To Clean Water Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Today, Trump\u2019s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers announced a revised proposal that would gut bedrock Clean Water Act protections for nearly all wetlands and streams by drastically narrowing what waterways will be considered \u201cWaters of the United States.\u201d The proposal goes much farther than the initial proposed rule issued in November, by essentially reducing federal protections to waterways with permanent water.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed rule would compound the damage of the 2023 <em>Sackett v. EPA<\/em> Supreme Court decision, which eliminated protections for tens of millions of acres of sensitive wetlands and small streams. By gutting upstream protections, this rule ignores even the Court\u2019s meager protections and will bring downstream water pollution. The proposal will be open for public comment for just 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>In response, <strong>Food &amp; Water Watch Legal Director Tarah Heinzen<\/strong> issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump is taking yet another sledgehammer to our bedrock Clean Water Act, shamelessly doubling down on his initial terrible proposal to strip protections from countless streams and wetlands. Make no mistake: This unlawful proposal gives bad actors the green light to fill, drain, and poison sensitive waterways from coast to coast. The result will be dirtier water for everyone. The administration must reverse course on this dangerous proposal.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Trump\u2019s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers announced a revised proposal that would gut bedrock Clean Water Act protections for nearly all wetlands and streams by drastically narrowing what waterways will be considered \u201cWaters of the United States.\u201d The proposal goes much farther than the initial proposed rule issued in November, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}