House of Representatives: http://cleanwaternetwork.org/resources/2012houserecord

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th District has reaffirmed the ruling that Forest roads are "point sources" as a matter of law and that EPA regulations requore a discharge permit under the Clean Water Act. 

This is the publication of the case NEDC v. Brown

RE: Oppose HR 872, the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act

Dear Representative:

On behalf of our organizations' millions of members, we urge you to support clean water by OPPOSING HR 872 when it gets brought to the House floor. This...

March XX, 2011

Dear Member of Mississippi River State Congressional Delegations,

As you continue the debate on deficit reduction measures in the Fiscal Year 2011 (FY 11) Appropriations legislation and the Fiscal Year 2012 (FY 12) Budget, the ___ undersigned organizations urge...

This page contains materials, presentations and resources from CWN's most recent Clean Water Week, which took place in Washington, DC March 1-2, 2011.

Handouts from CWW Folder

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Proposals are due on February 15th, 2011.

The following is a brief end of year membership survey. We would appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to fill it out and send it back to Gordon Culver at gordonculver@cwn.org. The information we collect through the survey is an important...

Below is a letter drafted by the Great Waters Coalition in support of the Great Water omnibus bill. The letter calls on the Senate to take up and pass this important package of legislation before the upcoming mid-term election. The bills that make up the package are:

August 2, 2010

Water Docket
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Mail code: 4203M
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.
Washington, DC 20460

Attention Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OW–2010– 0464/
EPA's Sanitary Sewer Overflow and...

Below are talking points compliments of CWN Wet Weather Workgroup Co-Chair Katherine Baer from American Rivers. Feel free to use any of the bullets below and tailor them for your own comments.

Please find attached the comments submitted by the National Wildlife Federation that the Network signed on to regarding the proposed Principles and Standards Sections of the "Economic and Environmental Principles and Guidelines for Water and Related Land Resources Implementation Studies....

This is an in progress listing of regional coalitions working on specific water issues throughout the country. This list is intended to be a resource for clean water activists...

A National Agenda for Clean Water: Prevent, Protect and Enforce

A broad-based alliance of national, regional and local groups has come together as the Clean Water Network to protect and strengthen the federal Clean Water Act. Significant improvements in the law are needed to clean up...

Clean Water Network's 2010-2011 draft membership directory.

Sign on letter sent to the US Senate to highlight an aspect of addressing climate change that has been overlooked in the current versions of climate change legislation, namely, the role that coastal and ocean ecosystems play as natural carbon sinks.

The letter asks Congress to consider...

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is seeking support for proposed regulations that the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Conservation & Recreation are proposing to significantly reduce runoff pollution into the Chesapeake Bay.

These proposed regulations...

Letter sent to US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson pertaining to ocean acidification. The letter supports EPA’s call for data and information and urges EPA to adopt stringent water quality criteria that adequately protect marine life from ocean acidification.

Letter submitted to the US Senate urging them to support S. 878, the Clean Coastal Environmental and Public Heatlh Act of 2009. The letter is attached to this page.

Memorandum of Understanding among the U.S. Department of the Army, U.S. Department of the Interior, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on implementing the interagency action plan on Appalachian surface coal mining.

This letter, sent by a number of government agency leaders to Senator Barbara Boxer, briefly outlines issues related to problems and needed clarification on waters...

Examples of letters that were recently sent from CWN members (in collaboration with other organizations) in California, New Mexico and Ohio to their U.S. Senators, asking them to support the Clean Water Restoration Act (S.787).
 

An article in the May 2009 edition of Field and Stream states that the passage of the Clean Water Restoration Act is the #1 goal that "sportsmen must work toward right now."

Hundreds of Clean Water Act (CWA) enforcement cases have either been dropped
completely or made lower priorities due to concerns that recent Supreme Court decisions
questioning whether certain rivers, streams, wetlands and other waters remain protected
from pollution by the...

 From outdated flood control schemes to harmful dams and mining projects, our nation’s rivers and clean water are at risk. American Rivers, the nation’s leading river conservation organization, today released America’s Most Endangered Rivers: 2009 edition spotlighting ten...

Clean Water Network members Clean Water Action, Earthjustice, Environment America, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club and the Southern Environmental Law Center released Courting Disaster: How the Supreme Court Has Broken the Clean Water Act and Why...

Weakening the Clean Water Act: What it means for Michigan?

More than 500 organizations – representing the conservation community, family farmers, fishers, surfers, boaters, faith communities, environmental justice advocates, labor unions, and civic associations – call on Congress to pass the Clean Water Restoration Act to reaffirm the...

Please find through the links provided, the Water Infrastructure Network (WIN) Letter distributed yesterday to U.S. House and Senate Conferees on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This letter requests the inclusion of "a minimum of $6 B for the Clean Water SRF" in the final...

Since Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, we have made great progress in cleaning up our nation’s waters, but that progress is in jeopardy today. The law historically has protected the nation’s lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands from unregulated pollution and destruction....

Sierra Club report detailing how the Clean Water Restoration Act can be used to bolster our natural defenses against climate change.

Reported released by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee titled Stagnant Waters: The Legacy of the Bush Administration on the Clean Water Act. The report detail's the Bush Administration's failure to enforce the Clean Water Act.

Radical changes to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's stormwater program are necessary to reverse degradation of fresh water resources and ensure progress toward the Clean Water Act's goal of "fishable and swimmable" waters, says a new report from the National Research Council...

The report shows that by using existing water-efficient technologies and practices in agriculture, homes, electricity production and business the six Southwestern states alone could save up to 1.86 trillion gallons of water per year. This is equivalent to the amount of water New Mexico and...

The National Conference of State Legislatures recently released this report - Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: A Survey of State Policies.

Facilities across America continue to dump more pollution into our waterways than their Clean Water Act permits allow, according to Troubled Waters: An analysis of Clean Water Act compliance, a report released by U.S. PIRG (now Environmental America) this Fall.

Using the most recent data...

A new report just released by American Rivers shows major inconsistencies in how residents from 11 states across the country are notified about sewage pollution in their local waterways. This report, What’s In Your

Water: The Status of Public Notification in 11 U.S. States, finds...

The attached document describes the multiple risks that new feeral ballast water legislation would pose to state laws. The Clean Water Network and its member groups have already asked the US Senate to remove CWA Exemptions and State Preemption from the Ballast Water Management Act of 2007.

This fact sheet is a summary of state water ballast legislation for Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, California, Washington and Oregon.

Governors call on Congress to pass the Clean Water Restoration Act.

Waterkeeper Alliance’s Water Enforcement Bulletin (WEB) provides an overview of recent legislative activity, proposed and final regulatory changes to the Clean Water Act and other federal statutes, recent developments in case law and other governmental actions, such as federal issuances of...

In October 2006, the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, published a report entitled "Waivers, Loopholes, and Rollbacks: The Republican Contract on Clean Water." This report outlines actions by the House Republican leadership which threaten to...

For nearly 30 years, government agencies have worked to clean up abandoned coal mines with coal industry funds. For non-coal minerals – like gold and copper– no similar cleanup program exists. No industry funds are collected, and no federal regulations keep the universe of abandoned...

Fifty-eight Clean Water Network member organizations, representing the hundreds of thousands of their individual members, signed a letter addressed both houses of Congress asking all Senators and Members to oppose legislation that would exempt CAFO operators from liability under CERCLA. House...