Key House Democrats are decrying the Trump administration's decision to move forward with its plan to repeal the Obama-era rule defining which waterbodies are subject to the Clean Water Act (CWA), saying the environmental progress of the past several decades is at risk if the rule is repealed. "It is absolutely outrageous that the Trump administration is pushing ahead with a gift to special interests by pursuing the largest-ever roll back of clean water standards despite what it will mean for tens of millions of regular Americans," Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Grace Napolitano (D-CA) said in a July 16 statement. DeFazio is the chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and Napolitano chairs the panel's Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee. The committee and its subcommittee oversee the CWA.
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