[fourdeuce82d]

This is not the federal government's job. This is the job of the States.

In principle, that's fine. But what if your state is immediatly downstream from another state which has zero controls over effulent?

[TexasCowboy]

It has always behooved every State in the Union to work out reciprocity agreements with the neighboring States.
This method has always worked before, but now a bureaucrat in Washington thinks he can manage every State's affairs better than the people who live there.

This has nothing to do with the protection of people's lives or the environment and everything to do with control.