Some time this week, do you have a moment?
Get a message to your rep in Congress about the Clean Water Protection Act, introduced by Representatives Frank Pallone (D), and Chris Shays (R). As described by ens-newswire
More than 1,200 miles of streams already have been destroyed in Appalachia by the coal companies that have been flouting the Clean Water Act for years while the EPA and the Corps looked the other way.
There is more!
"It is my hope this legislation signals to the EPA that Congress will not sit silently by as our environment is destroyed," says Congressman Shays. "We cannot afford to waste another day, another hour, another minute if we want our children and our children's children to enjoy clean water."
The legislation overturns a 2002 rule change by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that allows coal mining companies to create enormous valley fills, burying thousands of miles of streams, to make the practice of mountaintop removal mining cheaper.
That rule change also allows other industries to dump waste in waters under the guise of renaming the waste material as "fill."
The right choice here is clear. We only need to muster the political will. Check the article, and then have your say.
Cross posted from OrganicAmerican.com