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It’s Clear: Americans Reject Trump’s Dirty Water Rule
Clean Water for All Coalition mobilizes more than 500,000 comments opposed to EPA's plan to strip protections for streams and wetlands Read the letter from 155 NGOs opposing the Dirty Water Rule Washington, D.C. — A broad coalition of equity-focused, conservation,...
155 Groups Tell EPA to Drop the Dirty Water Rule
April 15, 2019 The Honorable Andrew Wheeler Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency The Honorable R.D. James Assistant Secretary of the Army Department of the Army, Civil Works U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA Docket Center, Office of Water...
Got (Clean) Water?
Originally published here By Aaron Kindle “ I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it...
Standing Up For Clean Water
This was originally published here By Jon Devine, Director, Federal Water Policy, NRDC I’m posting this from Kansas City, Kansas, where the Trump administration is holding its one and only public hearing on its plan to radically roll back the safeguards of the Clean...
Advocates Call on EPA to Drop Its Dangerous Dirty Water Rule
February 27, 2019 (Kansas City, Kansas)-- Today, stakeholders held a press conference to call on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to protect clean water and abandon its proposed Dirty Water Rule, the latest in the agency’s relentless efforts to rollback...
What I told EPA in Kansas City
This was originally posted here By Jennifer Peters, National Water Programs Director, Clean Water Action This week advocates and activists are in Kansas City, Kansas for the one and only public hearing the Environmental Protection Agency scheduled for it's scheme to...
Speaking Out for Water in Kansas City
This was originally posted here By Michael Kelly, Communications Director, Clean Water Action I’m in Kansas City this week, and it’s not just for BBQ and jazz and the Negro League Baseball Museum (though those are nice perks). I’m here because the Environmental...
The story of Bartram’s Garden in Philadelphia
Why access to clean water is vital for communities. https://vimeo.com/313216683 Clean Water For All and Bartram’s Garden team up to tell the story of Bartram’s and how access to clean water can bring people together and support urban communities. As Rosemary...
Bartram’s Gardens — Why Access to Clean Water is Vital for Communities
Morris Sampson has been fishing on the Schuykill River since he was a child and he’s seen the impacts of industrial pollution and how good clean water policies can transform a working river to a powerful source of natural connection. To take action to protect...
Five Wetland Species Jeopardized by Clean Water Act Rollback
Glenn Watkins | January 17, 2019 Originally published here Great Egret, Ardea alba. Photo by Rodney Cammauf, National Park Service. We all live downstream. And the only way to have safe water downstream is by protecting water upstream at its source. Despite this,...
Press Releases
Trout Unlimited: EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers aim to cut protections for thousands of streams
Proposal leaves important drinking water sources and habitat unprotected from pollution (Dec. 11, 2018) WASHINGTON D.C. -- Trout Unlimited announced its strong opposition to the proposed rollback of protections for thousands of miles of streams and many wetlands today...
Montana Wildlife Federation: Fish, Wildlife, and Montana’s Economy Threatened by Clean Water Rule Repeal
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled plans to replace the Clean Water Rule which they repealed last year with a new, substantially weaker set of requirements for protecting water quality. The new proposal would essentially drop Clean Water Act...
SELC:Administration’s Attack on Clean Water Act is a Giveaway to Polluters
Proposal Slashes Critical Water Protections Under Clean Water Act WASHINGTON – The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) released the following statement in reaction to the administration’s proposal that guts the Clean Water Act, stripping longstanding protections...
NRPE Statement on EPA’s Proposed Rewrite of the Clean Water Rule
December 12, 2018 The Trump administration took action yesterday to weaken key parts of the Clean Water Act by proposing a new rule on water, which is an integral part of our physical and spiritual wellbeing. The Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of...
NPCA: Trump’s Repeal of Clean Water Rule Means Dirtier Water For People and National Parks
The proposed rule will take us back five decades in our effort to clean up our waterways. The original WOTUS rule, also known as the Clean Water Rule, was developed over a multi-year process that included bipartisan support. The goal was to end confusion about which...
Responding to the Reckless Dirty Water Rule
Today members of Congress and the Clean Water for All Coalition spoke out against the Trump administration’s outrageous proposal to rollback Clean Water Act protections for streams and wetlands.
Trump Administration Proposes Free Pass for Water Polluters
WASHINGTON (December 11, 2018) – The Trump administration took action today to weaken key parts of the Clean Water Act. The Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers agencies jointly proposed exempting polluters from important programs that...
NPCA – Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Can’t Come at Cost to Parks
Reports on the infrastructure proposal indicate the administration intends to dismantle bedrock conservation laws in the name of rebuilding. The administration argues that these rollbacks are necessary to expedite these projects. This is a false choice. To allow these rollbacks is to risk losing our natural, historical and cultural heritage our nation sought to preserve in the first place.
Earthjustice – Congress Should Support An Infrastructure Plan That Builds Infrastructure — Not Guts Health & Environmental Protections
This isn’t an infrastructure plan; it’s a cheap excuse to gut health and environmental safeguards that protect communities from dangerous, ill-conceived and poorly constructed projects.
NWF – Infrastructure Proposal Attacks Bedrock Environmental Protections
“America is long, long overdue for smart, forward-thinking infrastructure investments, but the administration’s proposal badly misses the mark and reads more like a strategy to gut clean air, water, and wildlife protections, while silencing local voices, than a serious effort to rebuild America’s infrastructure.”