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...
Clean Water Network is happy to announce its recommended reading list for 2009. Most of the entries on this year’s list were authored by Clean Water Network member organizations. The reports and books on the list reveal the cutting edge in thinking about water policy and...
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...
This document is a compilation of assorted policy points on key TMDL development issues. This document can serve as a cheat sheet for citizens who are commenting on TMDLs, but don't have the time or inclination to wade through the regulations and all the random guidance and memos out there...
The goal of Clean Water Network’s State Assistance Fund (SAF) is to provide financial support for active Clean Water Network (CWN) member organizations that are working to protect and restore America’s waters. Contributions made to organizations through the SAF program are...
Petition submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency calling on them to establish numeric water quality standards for nitrogen and phosphorous in the Mississippi River Basin. The standards should protect not only the river itself but extend to the portion of the ocean protected by the...
The Environment America report documents and analyzes the dangerous levels of pollutants discharged in to America's waters by compiling toxic chemical releases reported to the U.S. EPA's Toxics Release Inventory for 2007, the most recent data available.
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.
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...
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.
Attached above is a sign-on letter specifically for CWN members from New York, calling for strict, protective standards for implementing the Great Lakes Compact. Whether or not your organization focuses on Great Lakes issues, Compact implementation is likely to have implications for water...
List of agriculture exemptions from the Clean Water Act. Most of the exemptions relate to discharge of waste material from farm fields, especially Concnetrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)
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.
Letter calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to set effluent limitation guidelines ("ELGs") that eliminate all pollutant discharges from scrubber and ash handling systems and all discharge of leachate from land-based coal combustion waste disposal.
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.
Fact sheet provided by the National Widlife Federation dispelling commonly held myths about how the Clean Water Restoration Act will impact America's waterways.
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).
These Days, How Does Anyone Know What Water Is a Water of the U.S.?
New EPA Report Shows How Rapanos Has Hampered, Confused, and Complicated the Agency's Clean Water Act Implementation and Enforcement
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...
Elected Leaders to Scientists to Legal Experts All Agree: Passage of the Clean Water Restoration Act (S. 787) is Critical to Protect Our Nation’s Waters. The attached document is a list of quotes from a range of experts and political leaders endorsing the passage fo the Clean Water...
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...
The Clean Water Act has protected the Nation’s water bodies from unregulated pollution and rescued them from the crisis status they were in during the late 1960s and early 1970s. When the Clean Water Act was passed in 1972, our waters were in dire shape. The Cuyahoga River caught fire...
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...
Since the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972, we have made great progress in cleaning up New Mexico’s waters. However, after Supreme Court rulings in 2001 and 2006, polluters have argued that the law no longer protects numerous wetlands, streams, rivers, lakes, and other waters...
Letter sent to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Peter Orszag, Director of the OMB, intended to draw their attention to the need to increase funding for a critically important part of the Nation’s effort to protect our water resources —the National Water Quality Assessment...
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....
New “Dead Zone” Report Calls for Greater Protection of Wetlands and Streams
Clean Water Act enforcement a key to mitigating pollution in Mississippi River Basin
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...
(Atlanta) - The Southeast can save over $700 million and new water supply for over one million residents by embracing water efficiency solutions like stopping leaks and upgrading old buildings. That's according to the new report, "Hidden Reservoir: why water efficiency is the best solution...
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...
On behalf of a wide range of organizations, Earthjustice submitted comments to EPA on the agency's proposed administrative reporting exemption for air releases of hazardous substances from animal waste from CAFOs from CERCLA and EPCRA. A copy of the letter is available in PDF format through this...
On October 16th, the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council, an independent organization chartered by Congress to advise the government on scientific issues, released a study on the water quality concerns of the Mississippi River Basin. The NRC study, which called on EPA...
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.
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.
Letter sent to to Senators Inouye and Stevens asking them to please remove Clean Water Act Exemption and State Preemption from S. 1578, 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.
In June 2006 the Supreme Court, in a decision that split 4-1-4, produced a result in Rapanos v. United States that makes federal Clean Water Act jurisdiction over the wetlands, streams, and other waters of the United States confusing and uncertain for citizens, landowners, and regulators alike...
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 U.S. PIRG Education Fund released this report regarding CWA enforcement. Using information provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, this report analyzes all major facilitiesa violating their Clean Water...
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...
In October 2006, the Environmental Integrity Project released this report detailing problems with the Ohio Deparment of Agriculture's enforcement and permitting of CAFO's and argues against US EPA authorizing ODA to issue and enforce Clean Water Act permits.
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...
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