EPA Rolls Back Obama-Era Regulations on Clean Water

Critics of the reversal on Thursday warned that it will jeopardize citizens’ health and generate environmental cleanup costs paid for by taxpayers. Rep. Grace Napolitano (D., Calif.), the chairwoman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment that oversees the EPA Clean Water Act, called the move the “latest evidence of the president’s utter disregard and contempt for science.”

“Winners are corporations and polluters. Losers are families, farmers, and taxpayers,” she said in a statement.