The Clean Water Protection Act — which would stop the dumping of waste from mountaintop removal into our streams in Appalachia — has being reintroduced today, March 4th.
For a list of current co-sponsors or to prompt your member of Congress visit http://www.theallianceforappalachia.org/cwpa-cosponsors/ Or
http://www.ilovemountains.org/action/write_your_rep/
"The Clean Water Protection Act is the first broad Congressional initiative aimed at reversing the Bush Administration's eight year effort to savage our national waterways and the popular laws that protect them," Robert F. Kennedy, Jr said, explaining his support of the bill.
A 2002 Bush administration executive rule change altered the long-standing definition of "fill material" in the Clean Water Act. The new definition permits mining waste to be used to fill streams, allowing companies to blast apart mountains for coal and place the resulting rubble or "excess spoil" into nearby valleys, creating "valley fills" that cover hundreds of acres of land and bury hundreds of miles of streams.
The Clean Water Protection Act is aimed at reversing this dangerous precedent set by the Bush Administration's rule change.
In this county we take clean, safe water for granted. The Clean Water Protection Act is necessary to protect clean drinking water for many of our nation’s cities. We all live downstream.
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