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We report what they do, not just what they say.&nbsp;Alice Fleming Guzick and her husband, Bill, have been living at their lake house on Lake Keowee in South Carolina since the coronavirus pandemic started. She likes to paddleboard and kayak there.Trump and Radical Republicans &nbsp;from lakes such as the one Guzick lives on when the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers repealed former President Barack Obama’s&nbsp; and replaced it. Environmentalists say the change removes lakes such as Lake Keowee from being protected under the landmark Clean Water Act, which could lead to industries dumping pollutants in them.“If the lake were polluted, being in the waters of Lake Keowee,” said Guzick, a master gardener and member of the National Wildlife Federation.Great blue herons nest in trees along the shores of the 26-mile-long lake, built in the 1970s to cool the nuclear reactors of Duke Energy’s Cooter turtles bask on fallen trees near the lake; crappie, bluegill and bass swim in its waters. The lake provides about half the drinking water forTell EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler your thoughts on protecting our nation’s waters. Call Wheeler at 202-564-4700 or write to him at EPA Headquarters / William Jefferson Clinton Building / 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW /&nbsp;Mail Code:&nbsp;1101A / Washington, D.C. 20460.Contact the online.&nbsp;The which on federal lobbying in 2019, asked the EPA to classify “cooling ponds” as that don’t get federal clean water protections. The institute, which represents electric companies, claimed this exclusion already was part of federal regulations.“Courts have not always been consistent in their interpretation of the application and scope of the exclusion, and it has been misconstrued by citizen groups,” the institute wrote.The institute’s is the president and CEO ofThe and other environmental groups EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler in federal court over the Trump rule. They said it removes protections for millions of miles of streams, including some used for canoeing and kayaking, and 10s of millions of acres of wetlands that had been in place since the 1970s.manmade lakes such as Lake Keowee could be affected, including in South Carolina, Woods Reservoir in Tennessee, in Georgia and and Sutton Lake in North Carolina.“They didn’t even acknowledge they had done it,” an attorney with the said of the change in regulating cooling ponds.the Trump appointee who is the U.S. attorney for South Carolina, said in court documents that the agencies were allowed under a to environmental rules. McCoy echoed the legal arguments of Edison Electric Institute, saying that federal rules can exempt “cooling ponds” from federal clean water regulation.The centerpiece of the of 1972 prohibits discharging pollutants such as arsenic, mercury and lead from power plants and other industries into much of our nation’s waters without a permit. Thousands of people like the Guzicks live near lakes made by power companies, swimming and boating there and trusting our nation’s government to keep those waters clean.The signed by President Harry S Truman in 1946, sets out rules for how agencies should write regulations. Agencies need to provide good reasons for changing policy and demonstrate that the new policy is consistent with the law.“When federal agencies make changes in regulatory policy, they have to follow some very strict requirements,” Holleman said.Even the which the Trump EPA with industry-friendly appointees, found that the proposed rule and that it decreases protection for our nation’s waters.“We find that a scientific basis for the proposed rule, and its consistency with the objectives of the Clean Water Act, is lacking,” wrote board chairTeam Trump 69 of the 83 federal lawsuits about the environment, energy and natural resources decided through mid-September, according to research by , the litigation director at the at the New York University School of Law.Featured image: Duke Energy’s Oconee Nuclear Power Plant (Bill Barley/Reddit)Comments are closed.You'll receive our Week-In-Review every Sunday, plus special notices when big stories hit.

We report what they do, not just what they say.&nbsp;Alice Fleming Guzick and her husband, Bill, have been living at their lake house on Lake Keowee in South Carolina since the coronavirus pandemic started. She likes to paddleboard and kayak there.Trump and Radical Republicans &nbsp;from lakes such as the one Guzick lives on when the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers repealed former President Barack Obama’s&nbsp; and replaced it. Environmentalists say the change removes lakes such as Lake Keowee from being protected under the landmark Clean Water Act, which could lead to industries...

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