Dear John,
I recently joined ELPC to work on protecting the iconic waters of the Great Lakes and the Midwest. I used to run EPA’s Office of Water, which is responsible for establishing clean, safe water protections for rivers, lakes, and coastal waters across the U.S. Let me tell you what’s going on right now and why we need you to take action.
The U.S. EPA and the Army Corp of Engineers recently announced plans to consider whether to further limit the number of wetlands and streams now protected from pollution and destruction under the Clean Water Act. These waterways are essential to ensuring that Americans have safe, clean, reliable, affordable tap water, economic prosperity, and a healthy environment.
Make no mistake: this move by the EPA is designed to weaken protections, not strengthen them, and 94% of Americans want stronger protections for our waterways, not weaker ones.
EPA has opened a public comment period that closes on April 23. We need people from across the Midwest to speak up now and tell the EPA that our waters, including our Great Lakes and the waters that feed into them, deserve protection.
