Take action to protect North Carolina’s clean water
House Bill 600, this year’s version of the recurring so-called “Regulatory Reform Act,” is a grab bag of special favors to the big polluters who control corporate hog and poultry farming, build fracked gas pipelines, or discharge dangerous and long-lasting pollutants from chemical wastes.
Tell your legislators to uphold Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of HB 600.
In the words of Governor Cooper in his veto message for HB 600, “This bill is a hodgepodge of bad provisions that will result in dirtier water, discriminatory permitting and threats to North Carolina’s environment.”
As NCLCV points out in more detail, “If the Governor’s veto is overridden, this law would expedite the Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate project. Despite having been denied permits twice because of its impacts on water quality, Republican lawmakers are trying to circumvent these protections for North Carolinians so that they can fill their own pockets. Additionally, HB 600 threatens our clean water by rolling back stormwater laws and regulations which will threaten water supply, natural filter systems, and erosion prevention areas. These rollbacks come even as big-monied corporations and their paid politicians are claiming flooding won’t increase because of these stormwater regulations. Their priorities show they are not concerned with the wellbeing of our economy, our communities, and our families, but rather with lining their own pockets.”
