Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: While much of Washington focuses on the impeachment trial of President Trump, his administration keeps advancing his deregulatory agenda. Today the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule that shrinks the number of waterways that are protected by the Clean Water Act. It's a major shift with implications for agriculture, industry and water quality. NPR's Nathan Rott joins us now. Hey, Nate. NATHAN ROTT, BYLINE: Hey, Ailsa. CHANG: All right. So today's new rule, it limits the waterways that get federal protection. What is going on here? ROTT: All right, so what we're talking about here is really the scope of the Clean Water Act. The Clean Water Act is pretty clear in that its purpose is to limit the type and amount of pollutants that can be discharged into the country's, you know, streams, rivers, lakes, all sorts of waterways. Where it's less clear is around the question of, which of those rivers and streams and
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