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We're Hungry for Parks
Congress should fully fund for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) by passing the Great Americans Outdoor Act. As we all have experienced, access to parks is incredibly important for our mental and physical health, and remain a low risk activity even while we are social distancing. Unfortunately, for years Congress has diverted money out of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, leaving us with critically underfunded parks when we need them most.
Clean Water Action: HEROES Act Puts People First
"The HEROES Act is a down payment on the relief people and communities need to weather this crisis by investing in people instead of polluters."
How to Join #GivingTuesdayNow to Support Clean Water
Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund are joining with other nonprofits to mobilize a national day of giving. Ordinarily, this event happens in late November or early December but the need for action is too urgent to wait.
#GivingTuesdayNow May 5, 2020, spotlights the work of great 501-c-3 nonprofits like Clean Water Fund.
Donations of all sizes and types quickly add up to make a difference. Clean Water Fund is also encouraging people to get involved by taking one or more online actions to #ProtectCleanWater and by sharing our universal take-action link as widely as possible: www.cleanwater
Conservation Groups Challenge Repeal of Clean Water Act Protections in Federal Court
"The only people who support this outrageous repeal are the corporate polluters who stand to benefit from making it easier to contaminate streams or to fill in wetlands, while burdening communities downstream with their pollution," said Jennifer Peters, National Water Programs director for Clean Water Action. "Americans understand the importance of clean water and expect our government officials to do more, not less, to protect it. We're going to fight this scheme, along with the rest of the Trump administration's dirty water agenda."
Pendley's Anti-Public Lands Agenda: Statement of Brent Bolin, Clean Water Fund political director
Statement of Brent Bolin, Clean Water Fund political director
Note: In what can only be termed “absurd”, the chief Federal official in charge of America’s public lands, William Perry Pendley, today said the biggest threat facing America’s public lands is not climate change, not under-regulated fossil fuel companies pilfering the public estate, not the zeroing out of Land and Water Conservation Fund funding in the President's proposed budget, not the unprecedented rollback of environmental protections for priceless lands and endangered species but instead is...wild horses.
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