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- adjective Preventing or countering
degradation .
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Examples
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The groups also argue that Indiana has failed to adopt "antidegradation" rules called for by the federal Clean Water Act. Such rules are designed to prevent new or expanded sources of pollution from harming Indiana's rivers, lakes and streams.
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Indiana's failure to implement antidegradation protections led to public outcry in 2007 in Northwestern Indiana when the BP Corporation applied for a new pollution permit for Lake Michigan.
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But the environmental groups are arguing that IDEM's new antidegradation rules still fall short of what the Clean Water Act requires.
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But the environmental groups are arguing that IDEM's new antidegradation rules still fall short of what the Clean Water Act requires.
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Mitch Daniels concluded that the state's antidegradation rules were unclear.
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Indiana's failure to implement antidegradation protections led to public outcry in 2007 in Northwestern Indiana when the BP Corporation applied for a new pollution permit for Lake Michigan.
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