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Did you like the Daily News Editorial on clean water today? Great! Take action!
At the of today's Daily News editorial, The Return of Muddy Waters, the paper calls for its readers to take action. Did you agree? Great. Take action. Here. Obviously, Clean Water Action agrees.
Here's an excerpt from the editorial in case you haven't read it yet:
The Clean Water Act was designed to cover all the nation's water.
This is the only interpretation that makes sense - that is, if you're not a polluter. You can't really protect "navigable waters" if you can dump poisons into their tributaries.
The court decision could be affecting the water coming from your kitchen faucet: Nearly 60 percent of Pennsylvania's streams could be unprotected, including the sources of drinking water for 8 million residents of the commonwealth.
A year ago, U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., introduced - and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved - the Clean Water Restoration Act to do just that: "restore" the act to where it was before the court muddied the waters, so to speak.
Got that? Right now, polluters are only prevented from polluting the main stem of a waterway. Like, you can't dump into the Delaware, but you can dump all you want into Darby Creek.
In the first place, the pollution will still get into the Delaware.
In the second place, in some cases, the same amount of pollution that would have next to no impact on the Delaware could be devastating for a little stream like Darby. See what I mean? It's really bad.
Here's that link again: tell Congress to restore the only interpretation of the Clean Water Act that makes sense -- all the nation's waters.
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