To: Regina McCarthy
Protect our clean water!
All our waterways should be clean enough to drink from, fish from and swim in without risk of pollution -- from Jordan Lake to rivers like the Cape Fear and the Yadkin. Unfortunately, loopholes in the Clean Water Act have left many of our smaller waters unprotected, including those that feed and filter the drinking water for 117 million Americans.
Thank you for taking a major step forward to restore Clean Water Act protections to America's streams and wetlands and for your commitment to protecting our waterways.
Why is this important?
Right now, loopholes in the Clean Water Act leave more than half our streams—and the drinking water for over 4.5 million North Carolinians—at greater risk of pollution. The EPA has finally proposed a rule to restore Clean Water Act protections to these critical waterways across the country. But polluters from Big Ag to Big Oil are going all in to stop this effort and keep using our waterways as their personal sewers.