Tell the EPA to keep strong clean water protections.
John,
It's time to speak up to protect our clean water.
A proposed rollback put forth by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the Clean Water Act would prevent states from making decisions about infrastructure projects that could harm your water!
Will you join the over 12,000 Food & Water Action supporters who have told the EPA to keep our clean water protections?
Emily Wurth
Organizing Co-Director
Food & Water Action and Food & Water Watch
John,
Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is attacking your state's right to protect your water.
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler has signed a newly proposed rollback of Clean Water Act protections. His goal: to stop states from being able to protect their waterways and communities from fossil fuel pollution and climate change.
This is absurd — the safety of our water and communities should not be considered secondary to the profits of the fossil fuel industry!
The Clean Water Act sets a strong, simple standard that polluting our public waterways is illegal.
But the Trump administration has time and again attacked our fundamental environmental protections, putting the interests of dirty energy before the safety of your air, water and the future of the planet. And this now includes rolling back the Clean Water Act. Tell the EPA not to roll back our Clean Water Act protections!
Section 401 of the Clean Water Act is a powerful tool that gives states the ability to protect their waters from big infrastructure projects — like pipelines, dams and power plants — ensuring such projects don't have devastating impacts on the local waterways.
The EPA's proposal would severely limit what kind of water impacts a state can consider, forcing states to ignore some of the biggest water quality impacts of dirty infrastructure projects.
Food & Water Action will pursue all available tools — legal, legislative and otherwise — to ensure that states maintain the power to reject dangerous, polluting fossil fuel projects within their borders.
At a time when we must turn decisively away from climate-killing fossil fuels, this attempt by the Trump administration to ease the path for new oil and gas pipelines is simply reckless and foolhardy.
Wenonah Hauter
Founder and Executive Director
Food & Water Action and Food & Water Watch
Food & Water Action and its affiliated organization, Food & Water Watch, are advocacy groups with a common mission to protect our food, water and climate. This email was sent to [email protected] - and we're glad you got it, because it's one of the most important ways you can reclaim political power, hold elected officials accountable and resist corporate control.
