The Trump administration fired another volley at California, with the EPA accusing it of failing to comply with federal water-pollution laws
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday accused California of failing to comply with federal water-pollution laws, escalating the Trump administration’s feud with the Golden State.
In a four-page letter, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler laid out the agency’s public-health concerns about the state and its water-quality problems, asserting that San Francisco, for example, needs to spend billions of dollars to modernize its sewer system to prevent contaminated water from spilling into San Francisco Bay...
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