Anonymous,

Dangerous pollution is legal again in countless streams and wetlands that we depend on for clean water.

I didn't want you to miss the news that the Trump administration repealed the Clean Water Rule -- landmark legislation that, until now, ensured clean drinking water for millions of Americans.1

Environment Colorado worked hard to get the Clean Water Rule passed in the first place. Now, we're preparing to do everything we can to restore it -- but we need your help, Anonymous.

Will you help us restore vital protections for our streams, wetlands and drinking water?

Donate today to support the push to protect our clean water, and all of our other vital environmental work.

Thank you,

Hannah Collazo
State Director

1. John Flesher, "Trump administration drops Obama-era water protection rule," AP News, September 12, 2019.

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From: Environment Colorado <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Sep 12, 2019
Subject: Urgent: Clean Water Rule repealed
To: Anonymous Donor <[email protected]>

Anonymous,

URGENT: The EPA just announced it has overturned the Clean Water Rule, the landmark rule protecting America's streams and wetlands.

Repealing the rule threatens the drinking water of more than one in three Americans, making dangerous and reckless pollution legal again.1

We can't let the Trump administration open our precious wetlands, creeks, and streams to more pollution. Environment Colorado is raising our voice against this awful decision, starting right now.

Will you donate to Environment Colorado today?

America's great waterways -- like the Chesapeake Bay, the Great Lakes, and Puget Sound -- depend on countless creeks and streams to feed them and wetlands to help filter out pollutants. That's why we worked so hard to win the Clean Water Rule, which restored federal protections to all those smaller waters upon which our major ecosystems depend.

The Rule meant a check against polluters dumping into these streams or developers paving over these wetlands.2

Now the Trump EPA wants to complete what would be the biggest rollback of Clean Water Act protections in 45 years.3

The EPA suspended the rule almost immediately after the Trump administration arrived in the White House, and the suggested replacement for the Clean Water Rule is so lax that it might as well be called the Dirty Water Rule. We can't let that happen.

We're still working to save the bees and our national monuments, but right now we need to stand and protect our nation's streams and wetlands.

Will you donate to Environment Colorado to help protect the drinking water of 117 million Americans, and to support all of Environment Colorado's work to protect our environment?

Thank you,

Hannah Collazo
State Director

1. Coral Davenport, "E.P.A. Blocks Obama-Era Clean Water Rule," The New York Times, January 31, 2018.
2. Jackie Flynn Morgensen, "Scott Pruitt suspends Obama-era Clean Water Rule for two years," Grist, February 1, 2018.
3. Coral Davenport, "E.P.A. Blocks Obama-Era Clean Water Rule," The New York Times, January 31, 2018.