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What Now For Clean Water Policies?
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Coordinator With health and environmental protections under unprecedented attack, particularly by the leadership of the 112 th Congress, how do we make sure that common sense and long overdue water policy advances don’t get stopped in their tracks? The Administration’s backtracking on an important regulation for smog pollution it is getting a lot of attention, as it should have. You can see reactions from some of Clean Water Action’s leadership around the country here. Now we have to make sure that we don’t get propelled backwards on clean water protections
Choking on a Bad Smog Decision: first reactions from the frontlines
Here are some of the first reactions from folks on the frontlines here at Clean Water Action when they heard the President’s announcement that pending rules to crack down on health-harming ozone pollution would be shelved indefinitely:
"We were deeply disappointed in the Obama administration's decision to punt on reducing the amount of ozone we all breathe, day in and day out. This announcement was handed down on a day that marked the eighth ozone action day in southeast Michigan and the seventh in western Michigan this year. We can't wait until 2013 to get toxic air pollution like ozone under