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262. EPA's New Water Rule Could Strip Protections From 60% of America's Streams w/ Jim Murphy
Today, Matt Matern speaks with Jim Murphy, Associate Vice President of Legal Advocacy at the National Wildlife Federation, about EPA's proposal to rewrite which streams and wetlands the Clean Water Act actually protects.
Jim explains what the rule would do - by his estimate, removing federal protection from up to 60% of the nation's stream miles and well over 90% of historically protected wetlands - and why streams that don't flow year-round still carry pollution downstream. He and Matt trace how we got here, from the Cuyahoga River fire and the 1972 Clean Water Act through the Supreme…
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