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EPA’s new clean-water rules: What a rancher, builder, and scientist say

EPA’s new clean-water rules: What a rancher, builder, and scientist say

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to reduce the number of lakes, streams, wetlands, tributaries, and other waterways covered by the Clean Water Act, which regulates the amount and type of pollutants allowed in bodies of water. By some estimates, as much as 55 million acres of wetlands will no longer be subject to the law. Advocates for greater protections …

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