The change means national parks will no longer be allowed to ban plastic bottled water, after Trump administration officials ended a six-year-old policy put in place to curb pollution. The same argument was used by the bottled water industry’s main mouthpiece, the International Bottled Water Association, just last year. Last year, 331 million people visited America’s national parks. Some of the national parks that had made the change included seaside areas, such as Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina, and Biscayne National Park outside of Miami, Florida. In June, Zinke defended a proposed $400m cut to national parks in Trump’s budget, a slash that would have required staff cuts at 90% of the nation’s parks.

Source: The Guardian August 20, 2017 19:18 UTC