This is urgent, Friend: Our MATCH for action on clean water ends at midnight, and your support is pivotal to meeting our $100,000 goal.
With so much at stake, it’s difficult not to be nervous in these final hours of 2021. We must restore the Clean Water Act, dismantle Trump-era environmental laws, and fight for drinkable, fishable, swimmable waters everywhere in 2022, and that relies on hitting this match … and on you.
The stakes for our water — and of this match — are incredibly real.
70% of assessed U.S. lakes and reservoirs are deemed “impaired” by pollution.
One of the most significant setbacks for U.S. waters? The Trump administration’s decision to redefine “waters of the United States” — a key clause that specifies the Clean Water Act’s scope — to the narrowest definition in its history, stripping protections from crucial wetlands, streams, lakes, and rivers.
We’re demanding the Biden administration restore the statute’s scope to its original intent, because clean water is not a luxury. It is a human right that we must defend, together, in the U.S. and around the world. (And that’s where you, and this match, come in).
NONE of our work is easy, Friend.Â
It relies on a broad team of grassroots donors and clean water warriors. And that’s why I’m writing now, in the final hours of 2021.
