By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press August 31, 2021 A federal judge has thrown out a Trump-era rule that ended federal protections for hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways and left them vulnerable to pollution from nearby development. The Biden administration had already said it plans to repeal the […]
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Mining power: EPA’s Pruitt aims to short-circuit Clean Water Act
By Jessica Hathaway June 28, 2018, NationalFisherman.com Three days before the deadline for public comments on the proposed Pebble Mine project in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt directed his staff to create a rule limiting the agency’s ability to regulate projects under Clean Water Act guidelines. These are the exact guidelines that commercial fishermen and […]
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