Protect the Clean Water Act

Notice all the legislation lately aimed at circumventing the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act.  Those acts are useless if people don't have to obey them and actually keep water and air clean.  We do not want to go back to the days of rivers catching on fire.

 The poisoning of Mark Twain's frog

     Take action: Tell your Senators to keep toxic pesticides out of our waterways.

California Red Legged Frog

Tell your Senators to vote NO on HR 872 or any bill that would prevent the EPA from stopping toxic pollution from killing wildlife.

This week, the U.S. Senate will take up a House resolution that would exempt pesticide users who spray over water from the requirement that they obtain a permit under the Clean Water Act. This would be horrible news for endangered and threatened species if passed. Species like the California red legged frog, or Mark Twain's frog -- the subject of Twain's short story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."

Take action for Mark Twain's frog! Tell your Senators to vote NO on HR 872
and any bill that undermines the Clean Water Act!

This legislation would allow polluters to expose our nation's waterways
to
untold harm by reversing a court mandated requirement that pesticide
applicators obtain Clean Water Act permits if operating near our
nation's
waterways.

Nearly a billion pounds of pesticides are applied each year in the
United
States, often causing great harm to ecosystems that support endangered
wildlife. The pesticides permitting process that this legislation seeks
to
exempt is absolutely necessary to protect our waterways and the
threatened
and endangered species that live there.

Worse yet, this legislation will serve as a model for similar attacks on
the
Endangered Species Act if passed.  Once big polluters and their friends
in
Congress find a model with which to weaken critical conservation
safeguards,
the rush will be on to weaken them all.

Urge your Senators to vote NO on HR 872 or similar bills that would
prevent
the Environmental Protection Agency from stopping toxic pesticides from
entering our waterways.

Thank you for continuing to speak out for America's wildlife and wild
places.

Sincerely,

Leda Huta
Executive Director
Endangered Species Coalition

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and threatened species:
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