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Chemical Spill Rule Joint Comments -- Clean Water Action AMWA, AWWA
August 24, 2018
The Honorable Andrew Wheeler Acting Administrator
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington DC 20460
RE: Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OLEM–2018–0024 Clean Water Act Hazardous Substances Discharge Prevention Action, Federal Register, Vol. 83, No. 122
Dear Acting Administrator Wheeler,
The undersigned organizations appreciate the opportunity to comment on The Environmental Protection Agency! s (EPA! s) proposed Clean Water Act Hazardous Substances Discharge Prevention Action. Our organizations share a common concern, the protection of the nation! s water
Comments on Definition of “Waters of the United States”
On behalf of the undersigned 187 organizations and our millions of members and supporters across the country, we oppose the Trump administration’s attempt to repeal the 2015 Clean Water Rule and urge the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to withdraw this proposed repeal.
Crude Oil Trains in Baltimore: Too Dangerous for the Rails
Big Oil companies’ push to extract and refine more extreme forms of oil has led to unprecedented transport of explosive and climate-polluting crude oil on our nation’s rail lines.
Crude oil train traffic grew 5,100 percent from 2008 to 2014 due to the rapid increase in fracking for oil in the Bakken shale fields of North Dakota and in tar sands oil extraction in Canada. An alarming number of derailments and explosions across North America has followed.
In Maryland, crude oil trains are a danger to communities near rail lines across the state and to Baltimore in particular. The oil industry has