Those rollbacks could mean less work for folks like Adam Davis, the managing partner at Ecosystem Investment Partners.The country's lost more than half of its wetlands. The Clean Water Act says that when developers fill in protected wetlands, they have to offset that damage by creating more or restoring them somewhere else. Davis' company operates"mitigation banks" to help them do that.
John Kowalski and Paul Roos , retired hunting and fishing guides and conservationists, worked to secure the funding necessary to restore the wetlands surrounding Nevada Spring Creek through a private mitigation bank.John Kowalski and Paul Roos , retired hunting and fishing guides and conservationists, worked to secure the funding necessary to restore the wetlands surrounding Nevada Spring Creek through a private mitigation bank.
Nevada Spring Creek was once cut off to irrigate a ranch in the Blackfoot Valley. Now, through a restoration effort involving a wetland mitigation bank, its natural connectivity has been restored.Nevada Spring Creek was once cut off to irrigate a ranch in the Blackfoot Valley. Now, through a restoration effort involving a wetland mitigation bank, its natural connectivity has been restored.
The Republicans are usually making the most stupid decisions. Here we go again.
There you go using the s word again. Careful, it’s a trigger for stable geniuses everywhere when you get all “sciencey”.
Regulations create jobs. Repealing regulations creates profit.
Ironically, many in the wetland/stream mitigation business are conservative, not fully understanding that government regulation gave them their industry.
Another of many steps backwards with this administration. 😞😡
The Great Job Creator strikes again.
I'll never forget former governor ScottWalker in WI, repealing protections for 'small' wetlands - now over half of WI wetlands are gone. Communities that had never flooded before, now do. More toxins are now found in drinking water throughout the State.
And less clean water. Remember when Nestlé’s CEO suggested maybe access to water wasn’t a human right?
No worries! They can all get jobs at the golf courses that will be put on our nature preserves. All wild animals will shot and stuffed so that we may enjoy them forever! Cancer rates will spike but we can play golf as we die... oh wait, we won’t be allowed at those clubs...
We can never allow this to happen in this country or any country for that matter.
They should ignore trump
Uber rich, indifferent Trump, self serving, indifferent Republicans - seek to comply w Fossil Fuel lobbyists !
Stop calling yourself “public” you are socialist propaganda or NSR just like you forefather Joseph Goebbels.
Why do your articles never talk about both sides of an issue? That would be a public service, rather than pushing an agenda.
Trump is the Once-ler.
He does not give an ass about the earth that Trump for you
Yawn npr-democRAT FakeNewsAlert
ONE biologist? 'One' biologist? That's the best you can do?
It could be 100 biologists and scientists and experts saying it's going to damage things, do you think Republicans or The false king gives a shit? They don't
But golf courses generate revenue for rich people!
This is a disingenuous headline. Would you ever say that 'one scientist' thinks climate change is real?
Just try for ONCE finding the one scientist or journalist, whatever who supports President Trump's policies. You dont have to be so constantly one sided.
Humph.
How much this so call scientists get from the left for lying?
He’s a racist who just trying to undo everything Obama did.
Ignore basic science? Our Donald J would never do that! He knows more about wetlands than anyone. In the universe.
And refill aquifers — You know... where a lot of our drinking water comes from.
It's science. The GOP doesn't do science.
All water comes from Kansas. Just ask Impotus.
No surprise since realDonaldTrump has no concept of any science.
I’m so angry about this. Trump doesn’t care about our environment at all. At some point we need to give our Earth a break. Tired of the farmer guilt trips about how they “feed the world.”
『ある生物学者は、水規制に関するトランプのロールバックは、水が地下にどのように接続するかについての基本的な科学を無視すると言います。湿地は水をろ過し、温度を調節し、洪水を制御します。そして、絶滅危threat種のほぼ半数がそれらに依存しています。』 地球の循環は邪魔しては駄目ですね。
of course, science be damned
Well sociopaths and theocrats are not big on science, basic or otherwise. They're more about dystopias and apocalypse stuff.
“One biologists”
Of course it does. The next president is going to require years to roll back all the damage this man has done.
DebbieDoesTwitt They don't care. The persecution of libs is the point. Even if it kills themselves. 🤞
Swiftyme123 Trump has gotten rid of the scientists in his administration.
Only when the last tree has died, the last fish been caught, and the last river been poisoned, will the GOP realize it cannot eat money.
DrSheriV As if. TrumpDontLikeScience
dhershiser Trump ignoring facts to help big business profit? I hardly believe it. Except for the fact that that is exactly what he does over and over again
dhershiser Water comes from trump. For he is geesus.
Trump? Ignoring basic science ? NO!
Does anyone here think Trump tries to understand the science behind water ecosystems? After 3 years everyone should understand who he is.
You know if Trump did it, its bad.
Roll them back. Environmental laws are a pain in the ass and an impediment to economic growth. Not to mention, these stupid impoundments dictated by EPA are breeding grounds for mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus, Zika, and malaria.
Well 45 doesn’t believe in science ...
It’s all about the mighty $$
Sins of Leftist extremist ideology in supporting Trump coming to roast them alive.
One biologist
He's ignoring it because it is in his financial interest to do so. Where are the taxes ?
NPR needs to have federal funds taken away...they cater to dems only
Poisoning our water supplies to own the libs
You don't say. How shocking. He does not posses a basic understanding of anything.
They don't care.
ALL. The. Sciences. My gawd, we must STOP THIS! AreYouRegistered VoteThemOut
'A' biologist? Cool.
Trump ignores everything . That has cause or effect . Unless it effects him . May the water he drinks Be as clean as he allows it to be on his faith.
It would be enough to say that this administration always ignores science, always. So dangerous to this planet’s future!
I’m an outdoors man. I say it’s ok
Why would this surprise you?
It isn’t realDonaldTrump who is rolling back. It is the US government. Trump can’t do anything by himself. It is a governmental process. It is our government that is the problem. Not a party or individual.
So swamps may smell bad, but really help the natural order of things. On the hand, a cesspool like Trump’s administration is just bad.
A liberal biologist?
Trump will kill Americans one way or another. First it was this group, then it was that group and soon it will be your group. Meanwhile everything is polluted like a Russian backwater province. No laws, no land, no water, no air and no justice. Soon it will be too late.
China. Agencies own data shows the connectivity of all waters. Water is life.
Ecosystem services. All the nature around you serves a purpose. Wetlands have been drained for agriculture in the neck of the woods where I grew up, and there isn’t a healthy stream or well with potable water anywhere.
You should focus on real issue rathe than making big news about everything Trump does, I am still waiting for story about How democrats tried to ban Gun in Virginia , and Govt is passing law to punish citizen from criticizing governor.
Greed doesn't mean competence. Part of the Great Trump wall blew over!
*Putin's rollback. FTFY
It’s all about increasing profits from his struggling golf courses - nothing more. Trump only cares about Trump.
Well, realDonaldTrump has a real problem with science. POTUS’ problem is that he is too dense to understand it and thinks clean energy is bad for the environment. Trump is not playing with a full deck.
Yes, but real scientists who aren’t on the DNC’s payroll beg to differ!
There's nothing more dangerous than ignorance and arrogance (that thinks it knows everything) armed with power.
He doesn't give a shit about science and clean water.
Sure but what about profits?
This guy appears to not know what he's doing, I got a gut feelin bout him. 🤔
Did anyone think he and his knuckle-dragging friends cared?
NPR is a leftist propaganda organization funded by taxpayers of all persuasions. DefundNPR
I hope our world is fit to live after 4 more years of letting companies pollute and ignore safety procedures in the pursuit of greater and great profits at the expense of the publics safety.
No one ever said he was intelligent!
But, we have the cleanest water in the world!
I think I'll be poisoned before it's my time to die. Just from the groundwater connections! 😡😢
StateOfTheUnionWalkOut
Cuz Trump only cares about money & not about the environment. Let him drink polluted water then. 😠
You could have stopped with Trumps EPA ignores basic science.
If only realDonaldTrump used logic and science to support decisions like this.
The GOP ignoring basic science?! Never!
Now farmers can use all of their land once the spring runoff is done. So many could not because the 'pond' in their field for two weeks was 'protected'. Rule of unintended consequences.
ObiterDictum101 But, but, but business will be less profitable if they are held responsible for the cost of damages done by their externalities! Human lives are cheap, especially those lives impacted after we’ve reaped our profits, and we are dead!
We want no part of NPr the biggest propaganda machine for the communist Democrats
They estimate that 88-92% of all streams in Arizona are included in this rollback. It will take between 3 and 5 years for the State to implement their own protection rules. Meanwhile, the State just quietly sold 16,800 acres of land for copper mining waste disposal. *facepalm*
AllResistNews So does this mean someone prospecting in a seasonal waterway with a defined end can dredge till the cows come home and silt in everything in downstream (effectively killing everything with gills)?
Because Trump doesn't understand science. He only believes in his made up stories. He only cares about winning, which to him means making money. He rolls back regulations that are better for peoples health and safety; clean air, clean water, end to land mines, continue fracking.
DDT and lead paint coming back any day now. 🤦♂️
The Trump administration is stripping America of logic and decency with acts like this
Trump doesn't care about science. He cares about power and lining his pockets.
While we’re all distracted by impeachment, continued degradation of where we live goes on
Egregious.
How on earth can farmers, ranchers, hunters, or fisherman be OK with this?!
Science & the Drumpf administration do not mix.
What's the problem? Who needs clean water?
It might be better regulated by individual states
Think DarkWatersMovie should be required viewing at the WhiteHouse.... ... realDonaldTrump & his EPA want to keep poisoning Americans again.... ... They want to Flint-Michigan the entire country.... ... They want American children --- both GOP & DNC --- TO SUFFER & DIE.
This is should not be a republican verses democrat issue. This should be a pollution verses health issue.
Sorry, the Supreme Court has ruled 9-0 against the EPA for violating even reasonable regulation philosophy. So your ‘scientist’ statement didn’t wash with even the Supreme Court.
I didn't think he was being literal when he said drain the swamp.... Wetlands are essential for helping to clean up our mining messes... This is not good...
NPR = 24/7 trump bashing!!
realDonaldTrump admin ignores science about everything else, why not water. The GOP is couldn’t care less about leaving our children nothing. They are an embarrassment to humanity.
Well, since he's working to destroy this Republic, I guess he figures he may as well devastate the environment!
SavvyTroll MADA - make America dirty again
Dirty water, dirty air, dirty politics all in the name of corporate greed.
His base doesn't care. They can now be the biggest racist assholes on the planet now thanks to the Senate and the Media .They have essentially made trump the grand wisard of hate with no repercussions.
The Trump administration is poised to treat it's citizens (and the environment) as a disposable commodity in the game of generating local business profits and claiming jobs were brought home!
This madness needs to stop.
Is it better that a Federal agency gets to tell you what you can do on the property you “own?” Or is better that there are standards that local communities get to decide? It really shows how many read the headline and don’t have a clue about the regulations.
They are science deniers. They think earth is just for the taking.
So much for the 'I love clean water' comment. Of course, any reasonable person knew it was simply another lie.
Well, there you go. It's basic science and Trump doesn't understand that....
Trump hurts the environment TrumpIsGuilty
This article makes me so sad. 'Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?' John Muir
Science and facts don’t have a role in Trump world. Only greed, money and rolling back anything to do with Obama or the DEMs. The US is going backwards under trump. Reversing all the strides that have been made towards a cleaner, healthier country. Nice work GOP
SenToomey your genius is a fool - you are who you keep company with
The Trumpfuckery continues.
Before long we will be a third world country.
Of course this administration’s decisions ignore basic science. This President lacks any intellectual curiosity and certainty doesn’t base his actions on scientific evidence.
This hurts my heart.
Short sighted policy often comes back to haunt us in many ways, lots of good examples simple solutions rarely solve complicated problems.
The problem with these rules was that they resulted in property confiscation administered by power hungry bureaucrats.
It’s important the federal government regulates puddles in my backyard after a rain.
But but but......the economy!
Perhaps their needs to be a tag for such folks who impose their unstudied opinions on the public BackToCavemanDays ?
Wtf is his problem? Nevermind I don't have all day.
rules are bs. for instance - not allowed to drain ponds, etc onto marsh lands/woods, etc HOWEVER you can hook industrial sprinklers to hose & do it onto both. They'll charge for that info...
Ignoring basic science is the Trump brand, right alongside ignoring basic decency.
How much regulation is enough, and can there ever be such a thing as too much?
Gee, imagine that? They ignore “basic” science. Has anyone been listening to them speak? They ARE basic. notacompliment
Water from everywhere connects underground and in the air when it evaporates...even all the impervious surface area that has been covered by concrete across the planet
This assault on the Clean Water Act would be one of Trump's most detrimental moves if he's successful. Unlike most of his policies which he's not personally wedded to, this one he is. He's had to curb developments because of the CWA. He hates it. It's personal. That's dangerous.
This administration ignored science? Shocking!
No shocker here. What a baboon
Wait, they ignore basic science... I dont believe it!!!
The good news is this affects mostly red states so he's killing his own supporters. And they're too stupid to understand that.
The Trump administration and all of his Trumpsky followers ignore science & basic science at that? I don't believe it. 😂😂😂
Shouldn’t have said science professor, then I may have believed this!