Every day American Whitewater staff and volunteers use the Clean Water Act to protect the rivers we love and ourselves. There is currently a major political initiative to strip the Clean Water Act of its power. River Advocates across the country are taking action. We need your help to keep this incredibly powerful river conservation and public health protection tool in our toolbox.
After 30 years of success in cleaning up our nation’s waters, federal officials are now putting corporate polluters and developers first and taking steps to significantly limit the types of waters protected by the Clean Water Act. Urge the Administration to put clean water before the interests of corporate polluters and developers and ensure that all of our waters are protected by the Clean Water Act!
Take Action! Visit our river advocacy brethren’s page at:
American Rivers Take Action Page
Public Comments must be submitted by March 3, 2003.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers (Corps) are currently accepting public comments on whether
to limit the types of waters protected under the Clean Water Act.
Tell these agencies not to mess with this landmark law and to
withdraw their proposal so that all of our nation’s waters –
including the creeks, streams, small ponds, and wetlands in your
backyard – continue to be protected from pollution and development.
On January 15, 2003 the EPA and the Corps issued “guidance” and an
advance notice of a “proposed rule” that have critical implications
for the types of wetlands, streams, lakes and ponds that are entitled
to federal protection under the Clean Water Act. Stripping those
waters of protection will open the way for developers, industry, and
other polluters to discharge their pollution into, and fill in and
develop, many kinds of wetlands, small streams, ponds or other
waters, without any of the protections we have relied upon for
30 years.
Learn more about what is being proposed, and what you can do by
visiting:
American Rivers Take Action Page
We strongly encourage you to send this to friends and family to stop
this attack on our rivers and wetlands and the weakening of one of
our nation’s landmark environmental laws.
Thank you.