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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...
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...
Press Releases
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...
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...