ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed an amendment to the Clean Water Act that would make it so wetlands and streams that are seasonal or flow inconsistently would no longer be protected by the act.
Mark Sabath with the Southern Environmental Law Center says this proposed amendment is the most extreme interpretation of which waters are federally protected that they have ever seen.
“The result of that is that a lot of these small streams again that feed our bigger waters downstream won’t be covered, and that will make it that much harder to protect the integrity of the downstream waters,” Sabath said…