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Originally Posted by Guest
How about getting rid of the streams and ponds clean water act. I'm sure his hunter and fisher backers are all for that. They won't have to fish just net the dead fish and grab a deer and tag it that ate chemicals from a pondand died.
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NOT QUITE ACCURATE. From Wikipedia;
On February 28, 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling on the EPA to reconsider their definition of "navigable water" in the Clean Water Act. His executive order was signed so that landowners could be protected from overreach by the EPA.[citation needed]
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To date, the water quality goals stated by Congress in the 1972 act have not been achieved by American society:
"to make all U.S. waters fishable and swimmable by 1983;"
"to have zero water pollution discharge by 1985;"
"to prohibit discharge of toxic amounts of toxic pollutants".[76]:1
More than half of U.S. stream and river miles continue to violate water quality standards.[77]
One study finds that "most types of water pollution declined [over the period 1962-2001], though the rate of decrease slowed over time... Our finding of decreases in most pollutants implies that the prevalence of such violations was even greater before the Clean Water Act." Several studies have estimated that the costs of the CWA (which include the Title II construction grants program) are higher than the benefits. An EPA study had similar findings, but acknowledged that several kinds of benefits were unmeasured.[76]:2