Trump Administration Poised to Scale Back Obama-Era Clean Water Protections

The Trump administration is poised to roll back Clean Water Act protections on millions of acres of streams and wetlands, following through on a promise to agriculture interests and real estate developers to rewrite an Obama-era rule limiting pollution. The administration's plan for a vastly scaled-down Clean Water Rule is expected to be released as soon as Tuesday. Officials said almost a year ago that they had begun the process of reversing the rule President Barack Obama put in place, and internal talking points laying out its case were disclosed late last week by the environmental media outlet E&E News.