On Tuesday, in the Trump administration’s latest assault on the environment, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed rolling back Clean Water Act protections that have helped make America’s rivers and streams fishable and swimmable, in the process threatening drinking-water supplies across the country. Once again, the E.P.A. This is a thinly veiled effort to slash water pollution protections that have long been embraced by both Republican and Democratic administrations. would place at risk one of the greatest American environmental success stories: the transformation of our rivers and streams from open sewers in the 1960s and 1970s to far healthier waters today. The former are known as intermittent streams, the latter, ephemeral streams.

Source: New York Times December 12, 2018 20:03 UTC