Washington Watch: Clean Water Needs Your Help

Have you taken action to support clean water yet? We have just two more weeks to speak up in support of continuing the Obama Administration’s most important clean water action.

The Clean Water Rule, restoring federal protections to the small streams and wetlands that are necessary to protecting clean water, was perhaps the most important action taken during the Obama Administration to keep American waters clean. The Trump Administration is trying to kill it. We can speak out in its defense.

The public comment period on the Trump Administration’s effort to kill the Clean Water Rule is open now and runs through August 28. Citizen conservationists and allied states, businesses, and other public interest groups nationwide are working to encourage the maximum number of comments supporting the rule. We assume that Trump’s appointees will attempt to revoke the rule at the end of the administrative process. Through the public comment process, we’re building the public record to back fighting that action in court.

The Clean Water Rule prohibits development and other activities from unlimited dumping into or destruction of these small streams and wetlands. Without its protection, most of our nation’s stream miles and wetlands acreage are at grave risk of unregulated destruction. You can read more details about the impact on North Carolina here.

See here for one path to submit comments in support of this critical protection for clean water.

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