U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, who broke with her party to oppose the EPA’s proposed “Waters of the U.S.” rule to regulate waterways, and supported bipartisan legislation to roll it back, welcomed President Trump’s proposed rollback of that regulation.

“I’ve never been shy about calling out our government when rules and regulations don’t work for Missouri,” said McCaskill, who has worked consistently in the Senate to roll back unreasonable federal rules and regulations. “That’s why I opposed this rule from the Obama Administration – which, while keeping our waters free of pollution is a goal we all support, went too far for our farmers, ranchers and landowners – and why I agree with President Trump that it’s time to repeal it.”

In 2015, saying that the Environmental Protection Agency needed to “go back to the drawing board,” McCaskill announced her opposition to the agency’s proposed rule to regulate waterways in the U.S., which she argued went too far—and her support for bipartisan legislation to roll back the proposal.

McCaskill signed on to that bipartisan legislation – by Republican Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming and Democratic Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana—that would direct the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers to issue a revised rule that protects waterways from pollution, while protecting farmers, ranchers, and private landowners. The legislation would require a revised rule that does not include regulation of bodies of water such as isolated ponds, ditches, agriculture water, storm water, groundwater, floodwater, municipal water supply systems, wastewater management systems and streams without enough flow to carry pollutants to navigable waters.

McCaskill has introduced bipartisan legislation with Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah for state and local governments struggling to meet federal ozone standards would help alleviate the financial burden on those localities, allowing them to enter into agreements with regulators to meet the goals and avoid being saddled with a potentially economically damaging “nonattainment” status.

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