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Controversial Pinelands Coal Plant To Shut Down Not Convert
Clean Water Action sang the praises of today's overnight news that the owner of the BL England (aka Beasley Point) power plant in Ocean City has decided to retire it instead of continuing with a controversial plan to try and convert if from dirty coal to equally problematic frack gas power.
Advocates Call on EPA to Drop Its Dangerous Dirty Water Rule
(Kansas City, Kansas)-- Today, stakeholders held a press conference to call on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to protect clean water and abandon its proposed Dirty Water Rule, the latest in the agency’s relentless efforts to rollback critical protections and make it easier for industry to endanger our kids and communities without any accountability.
Quotes and videos can be found below. Full statements are available via email.
Drue Winters, Policy Director, American Fisheries Society“The rule fails to align with the original intent of the Clean Water Act to ‘to restore and maintain
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"
Empower NJ - Stop Fossil Fuels Press Conference: Statement of Amy Goldsmith, NJ State Director of Clean Water Action
Read a statement by Amy Goldsmith, NJ State Director of Clean Water Action at an Empower NJ press conference releasing a groundbreaking report calling for a fossil fuel moratorium in New Jersey.
Quotes from additional authors of “Fighting Climate Change: The Urgent Case for a Moratorium on all Fossil Fuel Projects in NJ”
Quotes from additional authors of “ Fighting Climate Change: The Urgent Case for a Moratorium on all Fossil Fuel Projects in NJ”