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Trump Administration Turns Back Obama-Era Regulation Impeding ‘Quality Showers’

Eric Quintanar
Trump Administration Turns Back Obama-Era Regulation Impeding ‘Quality Showers’
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The Trump administration has rolled back an Obama-era rule-change that placed new standards on showerheads in order to decrease daily water usage and increase conservation, a federal regulation the president has repeatedly derided as burdensome.

Under the rule-change, federal officials will no longer apply the gallons-per-minute limit for showerheads across all nozzles in a given shower, a departure from the Obama administration, which capped their collective output at 2.5 gallons per minute.

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