“Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone,

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot…”

Joni Mitchell

“Big Yellow Taxi,” 1970

Album, “Ladies of the Canyon”

Federal data shows that new EPA rules leave up to 96% of waterways and wetlands unprotected from pollution from coal mines, factory waste and pesticide runoff and other sources.

(Source: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 31, 2019, “Trump’s plan to strip clean water protections leave California and southwest fearing environmental and health risks”)