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 High Court Rules Against Clean Water Protections,
But Hope is Not Lost
On June 22, the Supreme Court ruled that the Clean Water Act allows a mining company to pump hundreds of thousands of gallons per day of toxic waste slurry into a pristine lake in Alaska. Over the next decade, 4.5 million tons of solid waste will be dumped into Lower Slate Lake, killing nearly all the aquatic life and essentially burying the entire lake.
But hope is not lost. We're going to continue to fight in the courts and in Congress for stronger clean water protections, but you can tell these officials right now that they can act immediately to protect clean water and assert his commitment to a cleaner, healthier environment.
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 Close the Toxic Waste Loophole!
In its closing days of power, the Bush administration passed an eleventh-hour rule deregulating 1.5 million tons of hazardous waste.
Polluters around the country are lining up to take advantage of this dangerous new loophole. They're fighting hard to keep this rule on the books. We need to fight harder.
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 Tell the White House: Protect Roadless Areas of National Forests
On May 28, the Obama administration announced that, during the next year, all plans for roadbuilding, logging, or other development in roadless forests must be reviewed personally by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who oversees the Forest Service
Please thank Secretary Vilsack for this important first step toward upholding the President's pledge. But while you're doing it, also remind him that there's still more to do to uphold the Roadless Rule and protect our wild forest.
Take a stand today for wild forests -- thank Secretary Vilsack and urge him to finish the job.
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 Protect Your Drinking Water From Toxic Chemicals
Did you know that the oil and gas industry, thanks to Dick Cheney and his old friends at Halliburton, are exempted from the Safe Drinking Water Act?
That's right: thanks to a provision slipped into the highly-controversial Energy Policy Act of 2005 at the request of Halliburton, Exxon and a handful of other corporations, the oil and gas industry was exempted from having to comply with critical provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act -- a law that protects underground sources of drinking water for millions of Americans.
Thankfully, concerned members of Congress in both the House and Senate have recently introduced legislation to close the "Halliburton Loophole" and ensure that Big Oil has to follow the same laws that every other industry does. H.R. 2766, introduced by Diana DeGette (D-CO), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), and Jared Polis (D-CO); and S. 1215 introduced by Bob Casey (D-PA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) would regulate hydraulic fracturing under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Please contact your congressperson and senators and ask them to cosponsor these important pieces of legislation.
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