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Group sues Trump to stop his ‘pool guy’ from making renovations on DC’s reflecting pool

The Independent·Katie Hawkinson·21 days ago
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A nonprofit group has sued President Donald Trump’s administration to stop renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. Last month, Trump announced plans to coat the bottom of the reflecting pool “American flag blue” as part of a leak prevention coating project. Atlantic Industrial Coatings, a firm that previously worked on the president’s swimming pools, was awarded a no-bid contract for the project, The New York Times reported. The Cultural Landscape Foundation said Monday it sued the Interior Department and National Park Service, alleging that the “current application of blue paint to the basin of Reflecting Pool on the National Mall is being done in violation of federal law.” “The Reflecting Pool’s profound reflective quality—achieved through deliberate design choices, including the dark color of its basin—creates the sweeping mirror image of the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument that millions of visitors experience every year.…

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