This Trump plan would strip protections from wetlands and smaller waterways

2,840 views · Published 12 December 2018 · 6:29 · Indexed 9 October 2026

Channel: PBS NewsHour · 2018 · News & Politics

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A new Trump administration proposal would reduce safeguards to millions of acres of waterways by removing federal oversight over smaller streams and tributaries. Judy Woodruff talks with Coral Davenport of The New York Times about how the plan would reverse decades of policy and how both industry and environmentalists are responding.

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