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The PERMIT Act would weaken the Clean Water Act, one of America’s foundational environmental laws, in numerous ways, including by: Reducing clean water protections across the board: carving massive loopholes into the Clean Water Act, excluding whole categories of waters from its protections and allowing corporate polluters to release PFAS “forever chemicals” into waterways without telling regulators. Enabling agricultural pollution: Allows discharges of toxic factory farm waste and pesticides without Clean Water Act permits. Speeding fossil fuel expansion: Drastically limits state and Tribal review of polluting federally-permitted fossil fuel projects like the NESE and Constitution pipelines proposed for New York.
>> Send your message to protect the Clean Water Act! The SPEED Act would weaken the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a critical environmental protection law, in numerous ways, including: Drastically limiting the scope of review: Removing many actions from NEPA review altogether, potentially allowing factory farms to build and expand without environmental review, assessments, or accountability. Reducing the ability to challenge weak environmental reviews: Establishes a 150-day deadline for any NEPA-related review, and severely limits courts’ ability to uphold the law. Putting polluter profits above science and the environment: Turns NEPA on its head by requiring agencies to prioritize corporate interests over the public interest.
>> Send your message to protect NEPA! Together, these bills are part of a larger push to tear down the safeguards that protect the water we drink and the air we breathe. Instead of cracking down on industrial pollution, House Republican leaders are trying to silence communities and give polluters a free pass. Congressional Representatives must reject these dirty bills that would contaminate water supplies and our environment for the benefit of factory farms, fossil fuel corporations, and PFAS polluters.
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