Setback for clean water act

From EPA issues new guidance under Clean Water Act:

WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers has drafted new guidelines under the Clean Water Act, which will see large water bodies capable of supporting boats protected from water pollution. However small streams will not fall under the purview of this act, meaning that wetlands adjoining such streams may very well be compromised.

Environmentalists are enraged at this development and say many small wetlands could be endangered.

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