Health Groups Call For Preserving Water Protections In Trump CWA Policy

摘要

Public health and conservation groups are calling on EPA and White House officials to ensure that the Trump administration's upcoming Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule preserves as many current protections for waters as the Obama-era CWA rule it will replace, even though they still oppose EPA undoing the existing policy. At recent meetings with administration officials, representatives from the groups said that instead of calling for the White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) to block the repeal of the existing rule entirely - a position that some environmentalists have advocated - they touted the need for broad CWA safeguards in hopes of convincing the White House to oppose any future EPA rule that would drastically limit the water law's jurisdiction.