Source: Rachel Frazin, THE HILL, 2/18/20

A coalition of environmental groups informed the Trump administration Tuesday that it would sue over a major rollback of water protections designed to replace the Obama-era Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule. "Trump's despicable giveaway to polluters will wipe out countless wetlands and streams and speed the extinction of endangered wildlife across the country," Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement. "Even as we're fighting this in court, the polluters will rush to fill in wetlands and turn our waterways into industrial toilets."

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