VOA常速英语2019--特朗普政府大幅减少对本国溪流等环境资源的保护

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The Trump¹ administration on Thursday ended federal protection for many of the nation's millions of kilometers of streams, arroyos² and wetlands, a sweeping³ environmental rollback that could leave the waterways more vulnerable to pollution, that is, from development, industry and farms.

周四，特朗普政府不再保护对本国的数百万公里溪流、河谷、湿地，这是环保方面的大幅退步，可能导致水道遭受发展、工业、农场带来的污染。

The move narrows the types of waterways that qualify for federal protection under the Clean Water Act.

此举导致《清洁水法》下符合联邦政府保护的水道类型变少。

EPA assistant administrator⁴ David Ross says the water rule doesn't mean that states can't extend protection to waters as they deem necessary.

环境保护局副局长大卫·罗斯表示，《清洁水法》的规定并不意味着各州不能根据必要性来拓展对水域的保护。

This is not a rule that presumes if the federal government doesn't regulate, there is no regulation. That has been a fault of the former administrations, and it is simply not true.

这个规定并不意味着：如果联邦政府不监管，就没有监管了。这是前政府犯下的错误，这根本不是真的。

Environmental groups and public health advocates say the rollbacks will allow businesses to dump pollutants⁵ into unprotected waterways, fill in wetlands and threaten public water supplies downstream while harming wildlife and habitat.

一些环保组织和公共卫生的倡导者表示，这种环保的退步会让一些企业将污染物倒入不受保护的水道，导致湿地被填满，威胁公共水资源的下游供给，威胁野生动物和栖息地。