Trump Wants to Further Destroy the Clean Water Act

The new, updated proposal is even worse for wetlands than the last one.

By: Seth Millstein

Outlets: Sentient

Published: September 16, 2026

Words: 1,054

Last Updated: 2 days, 2 hours ago

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Last November, the Trump administration proposed a regulation that would strip federal water pollution protections from wide swaths of wetlands in the United States. Now, ten months later, the administration has updated it in an attempt to take away even more wetland protections.

Under the new proposal, which was published last Wednesday in the federal register, pollution of a wetland would only be regulated if the wetland in question flows year-round, with one …

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