In Trump administration’s final-days deregulatory push, Army Corps reduces stream protections
The Army Corps of Engineers finalized a rule on January 4 that further retracts federal protections for the nation’s smallest streams. The revisions to the nationwide permits, which authorize the filling and dredging of waterways, are one of a flurry of environmental deregulatory actions federal agencies are taking in the final days of the Trump administration, even though there is the possibility with a Democratic Congress that the Biden administration will reverse them.