A new U.S. Environmental Protection rule would strip protections from Kentucky wetlands and other water resources.

Some industrial groups praised the proposal, while environmental groups said it would threaten clean water and worsen flood risk.

Kentucky has already lost huge swaths of its wetlands, which are "among the most productive ecosystems in the world, comparable to rain forests and coral reefs," according to the EPA.

The Trump administration is moving to narrow federal definitions of the nation's waters, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Nov. 17 — a change that would likely exclude many waterways and a vast majority of Kentucky's vital, dwindling wetlands from protections.

The proposed changes come after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a broader interpre

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