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Since water is a key ingredient in beer, it being mostly water, polluted water threatens beer quality.
Thursday a group of 59 craft breweries sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opposing the agencies' "Dirty Water Rule" proposal to slash clean water protections for waterways around the country.
These brewers, who are partners in NRDC's Brewers for Clean Water campaign, are standing up for safeguards that protect the sources of clean water on which their businesses depend.
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59 Craft Breweries Tell EPA Dirty Water Proposal Threatens Key Ingredient: Water
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(Score: 0, Flamebait) by khallow on Friday March 08 2019, @08:59PM (7 children)
Just because somebody you don't like gets into power (a thing which happens pretty often in a democracy BTW) doesn't mean they can magically tear down society. Laws are by their nature pretty hard to reverse. And the Executive Branch can't reverse law (at least at present). What they can reverse (and equally can implement) is arbitrary rules imposed by the previous administrations without the backing of the Legislative Branch.
And some of that has been pretty ridiculous. The EPA rules on wetlands are pretty abusive and some of the worst regulation the US has ever imposed. I think it's sad that it's taken Trump to reverse some of this stuff.
(Score: 4, Funny) by fritsd on Friday March 08 2019, @09:07PM (1 child)
Look, everybody!
khallow has found evidence that Trump is draining the swamp! :-)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 09 2019, @08:50PM
Indeed.
(Score: 2, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Friday March 08 2019, @10:46PM (1 child)
Thank you, I'm working very hard for you -- and ALL AMERICANS. Including our Brewers. You elected me because I promised to CUT UNNECESSARY REGULATIONS. Promise kept!
I inherited a mess from Cheatin' Obama. And part of that was something called W.O.T.U.S. (rhymes with P.O.T.U.S.). Also known as the Waters of the United States rule. A rule, not a law. Meaning I can do the Repeal & Replace on that one.
And I've done a whole process on that one. In my 2nd. month in office I signed the papers paving the way for the elimination of the W.O.T.U.S rule. Telling my people (D.E.P. & Army -- so brave) to look into, is it promoting economic growth. And look into minimizing regulatory uncertainty. They took a very careful look at that one. Very careful. In December we came out with the new rule. Which I called Restoring the Rule of Law, Federalism, and Economic Growth by Reviewing the "Waters of the United States" Rule. Otherwise known as Executive Order 13778.
Now it's March. And now a few of our Brewers are all, "oh, what about our water!" These are foolish people. We have the best water. And I know more about water than anybody. Because I have my own Bottled Water -- Trump Water, a true luxury water. Which is served exclusively at Trump Hotels & Resorts. Do they think we'd serve bad water to our guests? youtu.be/3lXA1VH6mUw [youtu.be]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @02:26AM
Why isn't this modded spam. He's obviously pitching "Trump Water".
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @12:43AM (1 child)
khallow, you're an idiot.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 09 2019, @09:06PM
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 09 2019, @02:33AM
Few people care to understand the wetlands bullshit. Especially since almost all our members live in cities, and know nothing about wetlands. Ironic that pretty much every major city on the east coast paved over vast swamps to build their cities. Manhattan, for instance. Now those city dwellers are happy to vote in favor of rules and regulations forbidding a land owner a thousand miles away from diverting an ephemeral stream of water to someplace more convenient. Swamps, marshes, and bayous are part of life, except in their own little worlds. In THEIR worlds, everything is solid concrete, and any patch of mud must be paved over to prevent it being tracked into their living rooms.
These are the great grand children of the people who drained the Everglades, after all.