Kudos! “Scientific American” Not Shy About Covering Trump’s Continuing Assault on the Environment

Here’s an article in Scientific American that lays out the basis on which one of Trump’s recent executive orders will result in more water pollution by undermining the 42-year-old Clean Water Act. The mechanism at work here is restricting the number and types of waterways to which the Act applies.  

“Almost certainly, some water bodies will face increased pollution under a narrower federal Clean Water Rule,” Daniel Esty, professor of environmental law and policy at Yale Law School, wrote to Scientific American. “It would leave some critical water resources less protected.”

 Maybe the issue is that our society’s disdain for science generally means an indifference to this venerable publication, whose first issue hit the streets in 1845, when James K. Polk (pictured right) was in office. What a tragedy.