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Trump Sued by States for Ending Obama-Era Clean Water Rule
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More than a dozen U.S. states and New York City sued President Donald Trump’s administration for scrapping an Obama-era rule intended to expand federal protection of the nation’s waterways.
The states claim the Environmental Protection Agency, which issued a new rule without the protections, ignored current science on the connectivity of smaller or infrequently flowing bodies of water. The EPA under President Barack Obama had sought to bring those waterways under the protection of the Clean Water Act.