In the eons that he’s been in office, Donald Trump has made it exceedingly clear that he would like to bury the planet in a shallow grave, and toss a bunch of living beings in there while he’s at it. In that time he’s ditched the Paris climate accord; moved to freeze rules limiting planet-warming emissions from trucks and cars; weakened offshore drilling rules put in place in the wake of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 people and triggered the biggest ocean spill in U.S. history; and replaced the Obama-era Clean Power Plan with one that will most certainly increase levels of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and is estimated to kill as many as 1,400 Americans each year. And on Thursday, he’s expected to give real estate developers, among other interested parties, the right to pollute the nation’s streams and wetlands to their heart’s content.

The decision, to be announced by the Environmental Protection Agency this afternoon, would rescind the Waters of the United States rule issued by the Obama administration in 2015. That policy was designed to protect sources of clean drinking water by placing limits on polluting chemicals in roughly 60% of the country’s bodies of water, which critics see as an infringement on their Constitutional right to pollute. Team Trump, of course, is opposed to any sort of regulation that could potentially impinge on business owners’ profits, regardless of whether said regulations were put in place to protect people and the planet.

Russ Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, said in a statement that the move is part of the administration’s “effort to remove regulations that put absurd government standards on the American people,” adding that “For years, this rule has been used by government agencies to punish farmers and private land owners with out-of-control fines and imprisonment for simply working to protect or better their property.” Farmers, a constituency Trump is hoping to keep happy in the run-up to the 2020 election, are also jazzed about the decision. “The rule that was developed in 2015 was a significant overreach,” said Don Parrish, director of regulatory relations with the American Farm Bureau Federation, which has lobbied for a rollback of the rule. “It overstepped the limit of protecting clean water and tried to regulate land use. It created liabilities that can end up putting farmers in jail.”

Environmentalists and people who would prefer not to drink chemical-laden water, naturally, disagree. “With many of our cities and towns living with unsafe drinking water, now is not the time to cut back on clean water enforcement,” Laura Rubin, director of the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition, told the New York Times.

The repeal of the rule is scheduled to be announced at the headquarters of the National Association of Manufacturers and will take effect in just weeks. Trump, a pathological liar whose grip on reality is tenuous at best, said in June that he wants the most “crystal clean…air and water anywhere on Earth.” According to a report from spring, he plans to tout his environmental “success stories” on the campaign trail.

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