7-27-11: Sinking the Clean Water Act

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Photo by Bill Portlock/Chesapeake Bay Foundation

On July 13, 223 Republicans and 16 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives voted to gut the 1972 federal Clean Water Act, leaving the control of pollution to the states instead of the federal government. The measure is unlikely to pass the Senate, but it is an example of the increasingly intense attacks on environmental regulations in general--including pollution limits for the Chesapeake Bay--in the Republican-controlled House.