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Great News for our Water!
By Bob Wendelgass, President and CEO - Follow Bob on Twitter (@bwendelgass) If you about water, you care about the Clean Water Rule If you drink water, EPA’s new Clean Water rule is great news. If you fish or canoe or kayak or row or swim, EPA’s new Clean Water rule is great news. If you drink beer or use a computer, EPA’s new Clean Water rule is great news. If you believe in science, EPA’s new Clean Water rule is great news. After ten years, the US Environmental Protection Agency has restored protection under the Clean Water Act to 62% of our stream miles and to 20 million acres of wetlands
Twelve Year Polluter Giveaway Comes to an End
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director - follow Lynn on Twitter (@LTCWA) A little while ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that the long-overdue “Clean Water Rule” will be finalized today. In September 2002, Clean Water Act experts on our staff and among our national allies noticed troubling language in Congressional testimony from several high-ranking EPA staff. It appeared that the Bush Administration was considering a polluter-friendly interpretation of a Supreme Court case. If they got their way, water bodies that for decades had been protected by Clean Water Act
The Dirty Water Rampage in Congress Continues
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director - Follow Lynn on Twitter (@LTCWA) As we reported two weeks ago, the U.S. House of Representatives is on a rampage against a wide range of environmental protections and progress. After approving a laundry list of harmful amendments to a federal agency spending bill the week before last, the U.S. House adjourned until today when they will get right back to work. Up this evening is the “Regulatory Integrity Protection Act” (H.R. 1732). This bill blocks commonsense policy to ensure that all of our nation’s water bodies are protected by Clean Water Act
Together We Can Do Anything
By Elizabeth Saunders, Massachusetts Director - Follow our Boston office on Twitter ( @CleanH2OMA) Elizabeth and Her Sign The People's Climate March was an incredibly powerful experience. The Clean Water Action Boston team joined a bus organized by Alternatives for Community and Environment, the leading environmental justice organization in Boston, which organized dozens of youth leaders and others to travel together to the march. The march was equal parts protest/call to action and celebration. Of course it was a protest against the lack of commitment from our political leaders to doing the
The Mind Blowing Start of Something Big
By Bob Wendelgass, President and CEO. Follow Bob on Twitter ( @BWendelgass) Just part of Clean Team Water at the #PeoplesClimate March 24 hours later and I still can't get over it. 400,000. 400,000 people came to New York. 400,000 came to demand we take climate pollution seriously. To demand that we say no to subsidies for big oil and yes to clean energy. To demand justice. 400,000 came to demand action. Now you can act too - by supporting the President's clean power plan to clean up the biggest source of climate pollution in this country. I was so proud to march with dozens of Clean Water
