WOTUS review stumps advisers: 'The science isn't right'

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Members of EPA's Science Advisory Board grappled with whether and how to weigh in on the Trumpadministration's rollback of clean water standards given the administration's insistence that the proposal is aquestion of policy, not science."They have the right to change the policy, but the science isn't right," member Robert Merritt said.The "Waters of the U.S." proposal from EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers would erase Clean Water Actprotections for wetlands without surface water connections to larger waterways and streams that only flowfollowing rainfall. At least some federal protections for those waters have been in place since the Reaganadministration.