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Tell Your US Representative: Stop the Permission to Pollute Act

Send a message to your US Representative and tell them to vote NO on the Permission to Pollute Act! This bill package guts the Clean Water Act, weakens pollution safeguards, and puts our water, health, and communities at risk. Protect clean water — not polluters!
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Tell Congress: Don't Reverse Environmental And Health Safeguards!

Critical environmental and health protections are at risk. The U.S. Congress could reverse or weaken safeguards and slash federal budgets needed to implement laws meant to reduce water and air pollution and protect people’s health. These rollbacks would open doors for polluters, not protect our communities. ACT NOW: Tell your U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators to protect people, not polluters!
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We Need Congress to Pass a "Clean" Debt Limit

February 16, 2023 | By Clean Water Action

Clean Water Action has joined The American Federation of Teachers and 140 other organizations in calling on Congress to pass a clean bill that carries out the routine task of raising the debt limit to cover federal spending to which it has already committed. The consequences of not doing so put

Dear Congressional Leadership: The undersigned organizations—representing millions of Americans—strongly urge you to raise the debt limit without hesitation or precondition. Risking a first-time default would be catastrophic for our economy and for families across the nation...
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We're Hungry for Parks

May 26, 2020 | By Emily Ranson
Congress should fully fund for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) by passing the Great Americans Outdoor Act. As we all have experienced, access to parks is incredibly important for our mental and physical health, and remain a low risk activity even while we are social distancing. Unfortunately, for years Congress has diverted money out of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, leaving us with critically underfunded parks when we need them most.
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