Tell EPA Administrator to Reject the “Dirty Water Rule”

From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org):

Clean water is a basic human need.

But the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just proposed a drastic rollback of clean water protections across the country. This proposal would fail to protect vital streams and wetlands — putting drinking water sources for up to 117 million Americans at risk.^1,2

That’s why we’re calling it the “Dirty Water Rule.”

Sign our petition urging EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler to reject this reckless rule at https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=30044.

If approved, this would be the biggest rollback of the Clean Water Act in recent memory.

The Clean Water Act has helped clean up our nation’s treasured waterways, from Puget Sound to the Great Lakes to the Chesapeake Bay. But these beautiful waterways depend on the streams that feed them and the wetlands that help filter out pollutants. Under the Dirty Water Rule, many of these streams and wetlands would be open to polluters.

Add your name against the Dirty Water Rule.

America needs to stand up for clean water now more than ever — for our health, our quality of life and our environment. PennEnvironment and our national network worked closely with the Obama administration to craft the original Clean Water Rule protecting these critical streams and wetlands. We won’t sit silently as the Trump administration takes a wrecking ball to the Clean Water Act.

Tell the EPA to reject the Dirty Water Rule.

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   Miranda Green, “EPA to propose easing Obama water rule,” The Hill, December 7, 2018.

2. Stacey Leasca, “The EPA seeks to undo clean water rule, putting 117 million Americans’ water at risk,” MIC, June 27, 2017.