How You Can Help
Please take a minute to e-mail your member of Congress and ask him or her to restore Clean Water Act protections to all of Ohio's waters.
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Preserving Ohio's WatersWhat's NewToo many of Ohio’s waterways – including Lake Erie – suffer from pollution that comes from mining, development and other polluting activities. To make matters worse, a pair of recent wrongheaded Supreme Court decisions have put the smaller streams and wetlands that feed our major waterways in jeopardy by exempting them from protections they would have enjoyed under the Clean Water Act. Ohio's waterways are too important for Ohioans and the natural habitat that they support. That’s why we’re asking Congress to restore Clean Water Act protections to all of our waterways. How You Can HelpPlease take a minute to e-mail your member of Congress and ask him or her to restore Clean Water Act protections to all of Ohio's waters. BackgroundSince the 1970s when Lake Erie was declared a dead industrial wasteland
and the Cuyahoga River was in flames, we have made tremendous progress
to clean up Ohio’s waterways. In large part, this improvement came
because of the enactment of the Clean Water Act in the late ‘70s by
Congress which set strong pollution control standards for America’s
waterways. In Ohio, the law now leaves up to 60 percent of our streams, an area from which the EPA estimates 3,471,892 Ohioans get at least some of their drinking water, open to more pollution and development. Congress is preparing to hold hearings on passing legislation to restore those protections. Reps. Boccieri, Latta and Schmidt sit on the committee that will hold the hearings. We're asking Congress to protect the health of Lake Erie by restoring Clean Water Act protections to all of Ohio's lakes, streams and wetlands. |