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Thankful for you
As I look back on 2019, there are plenty of times that it would have been easy to get frustrated, throw my hands up, and lose hope. But I didn't -- and Clean Water members and supporters had a lot to do with that.
I think I can speak for all of us here at Clean Water Action when I say our members and supporters give us hope and keep us going.
The impact has been huge. Throughout the year, Clean Water members and activists sent messages, mailed letters, signed postcards, and made phone calls. They contacted their federal officials, state legislators, CEOs of major retailers, and other important
Trump administration guts water pollution controls for coal plants, putting industry profits before public health
Today the Trump administration continued its assault on the Clean Water Act and signed a proposal to weaken effluent limitation guidelines (ELGs) for the power plant industry.
The State Of Our Union is [insert term]
Polluted, corrupt, opaque, in denial - our union is all of those things right now. But it won't stay that way. Because we won't let it.
A Champion for Clean Water: Peter Lockwood
If you want to make change, you have to get involved. It's an ethos we live by at Clean Water Action and it was embodied by one of our founding board members, Peter Lockwood.
Peter was a tax lawyer and a champion for clean water. He was a law clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall during his first term on the Supreme Court. He traveled to the south during Freedom Summer and was part of the civil rights movement throughout the 60s. He helped found Clean Water Action in 1972 and was a guiding light for the organization for more than 40 years. He will be missed, sorely.
Re: Comments on Study of Oil and Gas Extraction Wastewater Management Under the Clean Water Act, No. EPA‐821‐R19‐001
July 1, 2019
Mr. Jesse Pritts
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water (4303T)
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20460 Submitted via email to: oil-and-gas-study@epa.gov and pritts.jesse@epa.govDear Mr. Pritts:
On behalf of our members and supporters, Clean Water Action/Clean Water Fund appreciates the opportunity to provide input to US EPA on the Study of Oil and Gas Extraction Wastewater Management Under the Clean Water Act (Draft), No. EPA‐821‐R19‐ 001 (hereinafter referred to as the “Draft Study”).
The Draft Study, insofar as it addresses the question of whether