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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,...
6 Wildlife Facts for World Wetlands Day
Glenn Watkins, Maggie Yancey | February 2, 2015 Originally published here Forty-four years ago on February 2, 1971, on the Caspian Sea, a group of forward-thinking world leaders gathered to set-forth a framework for international cooperation to conserve...
Group comment letter about USDA’s interim wetlands protection rule
February 5, 2019 Download this letter here Public Comments Processing Attention: National Leader for Wetland and Highly Erodible Land Conservation USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250 Re: Docket Number...
Press Releases
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...
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...