The One Weird Trick We Can Use to Protect Our Water...

By Michael Kelly, Communications Director

Make sure you don't see a sign like this near your favorite lake, river, or stream - click here to end power plant water pollution today! The referenced media source is missing and needs to be re-embedded.

If this doesn't make you angry, I don't know what will. Power plants are using our water like a sewer. They have been for decades. And unless we do something about it today, they'll keep doing it. The power plant industry has received special treatment and used loopholes in the law to dump waste filled with mercury, arsenic, selenium, and other toxic chemicals directly into our rivers, streams, and lakes. Power plants, especially coal plants, across the country will spew billions of pounds of this toxic mess into our water this year alone. It's time for us to say “no.” The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new rules to stop this pollution last spring - the rules have been open for public comment since May. And industry has already had its say - the White House overrode EPA's experts and forced EPA to include several "do-nothing" options after closed-door meetings with the industry. We can't let this stand. With only a few days left (the comment period closes on September 20th) we have to let EPA and the White House know that the power plant industry doesn't get to write the rules. We need to let EPA know that only the strongest protections for our water will do. We can keep power plants from poisoning our water with chemicals that are known to cause cancer, lower IQs, make fish unsafe to eat, and damage our communities.  We can make the coal and power plant industries play by the same rules as everyone else - but only if we act now. Help us revoke power plants’ free pass to pollute – click here now. Thousands of miles of streams and rivers have already been polluted by power plants. If we don’t adopt the strongest possible rules now, this toxic problem will continue to grow by 28% over the next fifteen years. We can’t let that happen. We need leaders like you to stand up and protect clean water – tell power plants that their pass to pollute is revoked.