Friend: Clean water victories don’t happen overnight. Progress must be fought for—and we need partners who are committed to drinkable, fishable, swimmable waters… especially now.
This is the year our campaign to restore the Clean Water Act hits a fever pitch. As we run-up to the Act’s 50th anniversary, it is beyond time that the federal government fully implements and enforces the Act to deal with modern and future threats… and we need every clean water warrior we have to start a monthly gift (and unlock a bonus $50 for action on clean water!) and join us.
We now have 270 monthly donors with us. And I’m asking you to be the 271st now.
Friend, allow me to back up and ask you a question. How would you define “waters of the United States”?
Would it be an expansive definition that affords critical protections broadly, to safeguard the water from which we drink and fish? Of course it would be. And the drafters of the Clean Water Act—scoped to protect the “waters of the United States”—would agree…
…But the Trump administration redefined the phrase to its narrowest definition in the statute’s history, and President Biden’s proposed revision doesn’t go nearly far enough to restore it.
