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April 16, 2008
The Clean Water Act Must be Restored
A bill to restore the Clean Water Act, which was gutted by a Supreme Court decision in 2005, and is most important to protect our nation's rivers, streams, and wetlands, is getting a hearing today by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, just days after a Senate committee heard testimony about the proposal.
In 2005, the Supreme Court struck down federal jurisdiction over small, isolated wetlands that aren't clearly connected to navigable water, thus leaving unprotected 59% of our streams and ponds.
"This is the most important clean water legislation in the last 35 years," said Joan Mulhern, Senior Legislative Counsel with Earthjustice. "Congress has made the right move to propose the Clean Water Restoration Act. More than 110 million Americans get their drinking water from the same streams and headwaters that could lose their federal Clean Water Act protection. Every day, the Army Corps of Engineers and the EPA are making decisions that remove federal protection for these waters. Without this bill, polluting streams, filling wetlands, and burying waters will be common practice," as reported by The Daily Green.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at April 16, 2008 03:03 PM
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