From Clean Water Action (http://www.cleanwateraction.org/): The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) needs to hear from you today. Late last year EPA released a proposal to undo the Dirty Water Rule—the Trump administration policy that gutted Clean Water Act protections for vital … Continued
From Clean Water Action (http://www.cleanwateraction.org/): Good news! The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed to undo the Dirty Water Rule—the harmful Trump administration policy that gutted Clean Water Act protections for vital streams and wetlands. EPA must act quickly to … Continued
As you may have heard, EPA and Army Corps announced their plans to begin the process of revising the Trump Administration’s “Dirty Water Rule,” which was the most severe attack on the Clean Water Act in history. This regulation removed … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): Scroll down for action. Over the past three years, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a series of regulatory rollbacks to the Clean Water Act — a bedrock environmental law that protects our nation’s waterways.1 Under … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): It’s official: The administration has eliminated critical clean water protections.1 The revision is called the Dirty Water Rule, and it revokes hardwon protections for streams and wetlands that help provide drinking water for millions of Americans. That’s why we’re working … Continued
The administration’s Dirty Water Rule would roll back bipartisan clean water protections for streams, rivers, and wetlands, jeopardizing access to clean water for millions of Americans in the middle of a global pandemic Washington, D.C. –Chair of the House Committee on … Continued
From PennFuture (http://www.pennfuture.org): At President Trump’s direction, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) recently announced their plan to eliminate critical protections for more than half of the nation’s wetlands and thousands of … Continued
According to the Surfrider Foundation: The Dirty Water Rule is a radical reinterpretation of the Clean Water Act that will wipe out protections for streams that provide drinking water to tens of millions of people and wetlands that filter pollution … Continued
Posted at https://www.blackpressusa.com/commentary-the-dirty-water-rule-will-heighten-the-clean-water-crisis-for-black-americans/ By Niva Lubin-Johnson, M.D., FACP, 119th President, National Medical Association Clean water is a basic human right. Still, too many low-income communities and communities of color are not receiving their right of clean water. They are being … Continued