“In 2015, the Obama administration, after years of consultation with scientists, environmental groups, industry, and other stakeholders, finalized the Clean Water Rule, which used a 2008 opinion from Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy defining the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act as any body of water with a “significant nexus” to navigable waters. In doing so, the administration protected 2 million miles of streams, 20 million acres of wetlands, and the drinking water of 1 in 3 Americans that otherwise would not have been clearly covered by federal law.”
Notice that Democrats and the Obama Administration moved to expand clean water protection whereas the GOP always put profit over the environment and people as under the GW Bush administration where oily men Bush-Cheney allowed the big fossil fuel, energy and chemical companies to literally write their own polluting regulations behind closed doors without public or environmental oversight. The Bush energy policy gave sweetheart deals to favorites like Koch Industries allowed to write off millions in EPA-Clinton fines for oil and benzine pollution and gave Cheney’s old company Halliburton the “Halliburton exemption that excludes fracking natural gas oil drilling operations from the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act and allowed these polluting companies to hide the contents of their toxic drilling fluids and wastewater polluting the country in over one million oil wells and storage facilities. Bush-Cheney in their last days in office tried to give the fossil fuel and mining companies cheap leases on federal lands that fortunately was killed under Pres. Obama.
The GOP are truly the enemy of the people, of mankind, and the planet.
