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Comments from 60+ Groups Regarding EPA Draft Guidance on Maui Supreme Court Decision
January 11, 2021 Scott Wilson Office of Wastewater Management Water Permits Division (MC4203M) Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20460 Re: EPA–HQ–OW–2020–0673; submitted via regulations.gov Dear Mr. Wilson:...
New report delivers national infrastructure path to cleaner water
A new report from Coalition member, Environment America, highlights how investment can protect our water. To view the report, click here. Bold investment can stop sewage overflows and help make America’s waterways safe again, according to a new report from...
Clean Water Advocates at Townhall Urge Congress to Adopt Equity & Environmental Justice Reforms
A revision to the Clean Water Act threatens up to 25,000 miles of rivers and streams in the James River watershed that provide clean drinking water to 2.7 million Virginians. Photo Credit: Meghan Marchetti / The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Since...
Fifty Years After 1969: How Far Have We Come?
This was originally posted at NRDC.org By Jon Devine, Director, Federal Water Policy, Water Division, Nature Program at NRDC Nineteen sixty-nine was a pretty big year. This week in 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts traveled to and walked on the moon. That same year, the...
Algae Blocks Youth from Summer Learning
This was originally published in the Sun Herald on July 28. 2019 As Mississippi assesses Tropical Storm Barry’s impacts, coastal excursions are diminished because harmful toxic algal blooms have closed every beach in the state. More than an unfortunate situation,...
Against the Clean Water Rule — What People are Saying
The public responded to the Trump administration’s proposal to radically redefine the Clean Water Act to strip protections from streams and wetlands with a resounding “No”. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) only provided 45 days for public comment, but more...
Remaining vigilant against EPA’s clean water rollbacks
By Bob Wendelgass, President and CEO, Clean Water Action This was originally published by The Hill, here With the start of summer, America’s kids will be swimming, fishing and enjoying the great outdoors. An important federal rule ensures the safety of those local...
Taking apart the Clean Water Act is not a game
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director, Clean Water Action This was originally published on Clean Water Action's blog, here. The Trump/Wheeler Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is dismantling critical parts of the Clean Water Act one by one. Cumulatively these...
Safe and Affordable Water is a Critical National Imperative
By Kalima Rose, VP for Strategic Initiatives, PolicyLink This was originally posted on PolicyLink's website, here. With mounting and devastating water challenges in America, we can leverage Infrastructure Week to turn urgent attention to ensuring both the human right...
The Water Polluter Loophole
On April 15, EPA announced that it would not protect surface waters contaminated with pollution that first moves through groundwater. EPA and states have required permits for this type of pollution for decades and it’s reckless to reverse course now. It makes no sense...
Press Releases
26 Groups Urge Biden Administration to Take Bold Action to Protect Clean Water
Alabama Rivers Alliance, Alliance for the Great Lakes, American Rivers, American Sustainable Business Council, Black Women's Health Imperative, Children's Environmental Health Network, Clean Water Action, Earthjustice, Environment America, Environmental Law &...
66 Organizations Tell EPA to Drop Reckless Water Polluter Loophole Guidance
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 11, 2021 Press Contact: Nolan Bush, nolan@stgresults.com, (425) 780-0237 (Washington, DC) -- Today, 66 leading environmental organizations sent a letter to Scott Wilson of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of...
Over 80 organizations call for robust clean water funding
Nov. 25, 2020 - As Congress negotiates a final budget, clean water advocates highlight value of water infrastructure funding for public health, economy and unity. A community letter signed by organizations across America requests increased investment in water...
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,...
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...
Clean Water Action: Trump’s EPA wipes out protections for wetlands and drinking water, in another giveaway to corporate polluters
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Washington, D.C. -- Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled its proposal to replace the 2015 Clean Water Rule, also known as WOTUS. The proposal uses a very narrow, unscientific definition of water based on Justice...
Environment America: EPA “Dirty Water Rule” would drastically roll back pollution safeguards For Immediate Release
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveils its proposed replacement for the Clean Water Rule. The new rule would drastically roll back Clean Water Act protections from vast networks of streams and wetlands across the...
NCRM: Trump Administration Pushes to Gut Clean Water Rule, Putting Maine’s Clean Water at Risk
Statement of Emmie Theberge, Federal Project Director, Natural Resources Council of Maine “The Trump Administration’s proposal to scrap the Clean Water Rule is the wrong move for Maine and for our country. If finalized, this ‘Dirty Water Rule’ would strip safeguards...
Healing Our Waters Coalition: Coalition Opposes Trump Move to Weaken Clean Water Protections
Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition: Communities like Flint, Mich., still grapple with pollution. We need more – not less – protection for clean water. ANN ARBOR, MICH. (December 11, 2018)—The Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition warned that a proposed rule...
Earthjustice: New Dirty Water Rule Would Trash Communities’ Drinking Water
In threat to public health, Trump administration proposes to gut protections for close to two million miles of streams and wetlands Washington, D.C. – The Trump administration announced plans to roll back protections for nearly two million miles of streams and...