From Clean Water Action (http://www.cleanwateraction.org/):
Time is running out! We only have a week left to tell EPA the best way to prevent chemical storage leaks that could harm your drinking water! When storms hit, they can cause dangerous chemicals to leak from storage tanks and lead to major health risks. When these types of leaks do happen, we currently have no plan in place to stop or respond to them.
Tell EPA to protect communities and drinking water from chemical spills: Contact EPA today to tell them at https://cleanwater.salsalabs.org/no-toxic-spills-2022/index.html to finalize the Worst Case Discharge Rule with the strongest possible requirements.
Chemical storage tanks can be a disaster waiting to happen if we don’t prepare properly. Even in 1990 Congress knew this and directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to require facilities to make a plan to avoid chemical spills that can pollute our waterways. Unfortunately, over 3 decades later, these requirements haven’t been implemented! If such plans had been in place, disasters such as the 350 chemicals that were spilled during Hurricane Harvey could have been prevented.
The Worst Case Discharge Rule will finally require facilities holding large quantities of toxic chemicals to create plans in case of extreme weather events. Safeguarding our communities and drinking water from potential disaster. This is especially true for Black, Latino, and indigenous communities that are often downstream of toxic chemical storage facilities.
We are trying to get 1,000 more comments to EPA to let them know that we want the strongest plan possible in place to prevent chemical storage leaks from weather events! We have until July 26th, can we count on you to get us to our goal?
Thank you for speaking up for clean water, and for communities everywhere!
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