CLEAN WATER ACTON NOW!
Tell Congress to keep pollution out of our rivers and streamsEven though it is one of our nation's most successful laws, the Clean Water Act is under assault.
Polluters are arguing that the law does not apply to many types of waters that are not suitable for navigation, even though the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that more than 110 million Americans get their drinking water from rivers and streams that are not navigable. At least 20 million acres of the nation's remaining wetlands, which filter polluted water and provide flood storage, migratory bird habitat and fish and shellfish beds, are also in jeopardy of losing Clean Water Act protections.
If these waters are excluded from the Clean Water Act, we would have no nationwide law preventing mining companies, the oil and gas industry and other big corporate interests from dumping raw sewage, industrial chemicals and other poisons into a host of our waterways. And if headwater streams and wetlands become dumping grounds, it won't be long until the larger lakes and rivers downstream will become polluted, too.
Polluters will continue to ask the courts to chop away at the Clean Water Act's protections until Congress reaffirms the original intent of the Clean Water Act -- "to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the Nation's waters" -- by specifying that the waters in question are in fact covered.
The Clean Water Authority Restoration Act would do that.
== What to do ==
Send a message urging your senators and representative to co-sponsor and support the Clean Water Authority Restoration Act (H.R. 1356/S. 912).
== Contact information ==
You can email or fax your senators and representative directly from NRDC's Earth Action Center at http://www.nrdc.org/action/. If you prefer to call, the Capitol switchboard number is 202-224-3121.
Tell Congress to keep pollution out of our rivers and streamsEven though it is one of our nation's most successful laws, the Clean Water Act is under assault.
Polluters are arguing that the law does not apply to many types of waters that are not suitable for navigation, even though the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that more than 110 million Americans get their drinking water from rivers and streams that are not navigable. At least 20 million acres of the nation's remaining wetlands, which filter polluted water and provide flood storage, migratory bird habitat and fish and shellfish beds, are also in jeopardy of losing Clean Water Act protections.
If these waters are excluded from the Clean Water Act, we would have no nationwide law preventing mining companies, the oil and gas industry and other big corporate interests from dumping raw sewage, industrial chemicals and other poisons into a host of our waterways. And if headwater streams and wetlands become dumping grounds, it won't be long until the larger lakes and rivers downstream will become polluted, too.
Polluters will continue to ask the courts to chop away at the Clean Water Act's protections until Congress reaffirms the original intent of the Clean Water Act -- "to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the Nation's waters" -- by specifying that the waters in question are in fact covered.
The Clean Water Authority Restoration Act would do that.
== What to do ==
Send a message urging your senators and representative to co-sponsor and support the Clean Water Authority Restoration Act (H.R. 1356/S. 912).
== Contact information ==
You can email or fax your senators and representative directly from NRDC's Earth Action Center at http://www.nrdc.org/action/. If you prefer to call, the Capitol switchboard number is 202-224-3121.
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