This marsh will be no more, thanks to no control over pollution.
Why do we allow a conman to turn the United States of America into a wasteland?
My loop unfurls with the grace of habit— Years coiled in the motion, A lifetime in the reach of the cast. The river keeps its own counsel, Sliding cold from mountain to the sea, But I listen as if it might confess The secret places where the fish lie. Henry Clement, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, August 2023. The 21st year of caring about our fisheries and conservation.
By Henry Clement
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it would more narrowly define “waters of the United States” to exclude many wetlands and streams across the country. The changes will strip federal protections from up to 55 million acres of wetlands, or about 85 percent of all wetlands nationwide, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a responsible environmental group.—NRDC.
The Robert’s court supports dirty water
The EPA kicked off the wave of deregulation on November 17, 2025, which will prove to be negatively impactful well beyond a reversal if responsible leadership returns to govern. The scale-back proposed to undermine the Clean Water Act, which Congress passed in 1972 to protect all “waters of the United States” from pollution or destruction, will be earth-shakingly bad.
Show me the money
The industries that want dirty water to improve their profitability by freely dumping their waste into any water-conveying ditch include groups representing corporate farmers, oil drillers, chemical manufacturers, home builders, and real estate developers.
All freshwater flows to the sea, so that marine life is severely impacted by free rein pollution from corporate farm runoff, chemical company waste ponds, builders’ disregard for encroachment on freshwater, and developers’ disregard for destroying any riverine geography or wetlands in their path to expand their buildable acreage.
We can all survive an irresponsible administration, but not one of us without clean, drinkable water.
From sea to shining sea
Every living thing, from forests to fisheries to plants, mammals, and raptors, will suffer degradation under Trump’s new gift to corporations by castrating the EPA.
Waste land cometh
Trump to add his historic blunders, rolling back Biden-era protections for endangered species and their habitats.
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