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Trump White House "Dramatically" Deregulated US Wetlands and Streams

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Machine learning predicts which rivers, streams, and wetlands the Clean Water Act regulates. 2020 rule deregulated 690,000 stream miles, more than every stream in California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas combined. The wetlands deregulated under the 2020 rule provided over $250 billion in flood prevention benefits to nearby buildings.

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Trump White House "Dramatically" Deregulated US Wetlands and Streams

The 1972 Clean Water Act protects the "waters of the United States" but does not precisely define which streams and wetlands this phrase covers, leaving it to presidential administrations, regulators, and courts to decide.

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