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Speaking Out for Clean Water in Kansas City
I’m in Kansas City this week, and it’s not just for BBQ and jazz and the Negro League Baseball Museum (though those are nice perks). I’m here because the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)is holding the only public hearing on its scheme to strip Clean Water Act protections from millions of miles of streams and more than half of the nation’s wetlands. On top of only providing 60 days for the public to comment on the most aggressive assault on safeguards for our water in the history of the Clean Water Act, it’s almost like EPA doesn’t actually want to hear from the public about the Dirty
The Least EPA Could Do on PFAS
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a plan that summarizes ongoing activity, affirms commitments the agency made in May 2018, and announces several new initiatives. The “PFAS Action Plan” is an exhaustive review of what EPA is doing and commits to some new initiatives.
Given the urgency around PFAS chemicals it is still literally the least EPA can do.
This Action Plan follows up on commitments made in May, including evaluating the need for drinking water limits. EPA is announcing that it will begin the Safe Drinking Water Act process for two chemicals – PFOA and PFOS – and
What is EPA afraid of? 60 days is an unacceptably short public comment period for the most aggressive attack on the Clean Water Act since 1972
"Andrew Wheeler and the other special interest lobbyists President Trump has placed at EPA don’t want to hear from the public because they know Americans will oppose the Dirty Water Rule"
You Call this Advancing Water Infrastructure? - A Rant on the Worst Infrastructure Week To Date
Yesterday I received what might be the most fantastical press release the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Public Engagement has released in a while. It said that EPA is advancing President Trump’s Infrastructure Agenda through investments in water infrastructure, which is interesting because there hasn’t been any news about a new infrastructure agenda or any new financing programs for water projects.
I read further. What I found was astonishing.
Let’s break it down:
The release starts by linking to the President’s infrastructure proposal from last year, which has sat on
For the sake of our water, help fix it, now.
Why do so many Members of Congress stand by – or, even worse, pile on – whenever the Trump Administration advances another one of its reckless anti-environment giveaways to big polluters?
Maybe it’s because things have been systematically rigged to boost the influence wielded by big polluters and other corporate special interests. When people like you who care about clean water are effectively shut out – or worse, ignored by those elected to represent us – bad things can happen.
The Trump Administration’s Dirty Water Rule is only the latest example. It’s a reckless “repeal and replace” scheme