Tell the Bush Administration to protect our water! Petition

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May 27, 2004

We the undersigned, endorse the following petition:
Tell the Bush Administration to protect our water!
Target: Mike Leavitt, EPA Administrator
Sponsor: League of Conservation Voters.r>

SIGNATURES.13,287

GOAL: 15,000

DEADLINE: 5-30-2004

TELL THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO PROTECT OUR WATER! SIGN PETITION BELOW

When Congress passed the Clean Water Act, the bipartisan law was intended to protect our nation's waters from the harmful effects of pollution. Now, the Bush Administration is working to unravel 30 years of protections under this landmark, bipartisan law.

In January, 2003 the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers published a proposal that is the first step in severely limiting the ability of the Clean Water Act to protect many of our nation's waters. This Bush Administration rollback will lead to significantly more pollution & accelerated loss of wildlife habitat and pose significant threats to human and environmental health.

This new proposal would make it easier for polluting industries and developers to contaminate or destroy non-navigable wetlands, streams, and ponds. Pollution dumped into the upper reaches of watersheds not only damages and destroys those smaller -- but still ecologically vital -- aquatic habitats, but ends up harming lakes, rivers and coastal waters downstream as well.

This latest rollback follows the Bush Administration's pattern of putting corporate polluter's interest before the public's interest in a clean, healthy environment.

TAKE ACTION NOW!

Sign this petition and tell the Bush Administration to put the public's interest in a clean environment before the interest of corporate polluters. Tell them not to reverse 30 years of progress and instead make sure that the Clean Water Act continues to protect all of our nation's waters. Sign now!

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This Petition is now closed. Due to overwhelming opposition, the Bush Administration has rescinded the proposed changes to the Clean Water Act. Thank you for your support!

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Number	Date	Name	City	State	Why is it important to protect the clean water act
13,287	3:40 am PDT, May 27	Ray Kennedy	Brattleboro	VT	Duh Bush...Clean water...clean health...what part of this don't you get...wake up! (And to think I almost voted for you.)
13,286	11:52 pm PDT, May 26	Shannon Ronan	San Francisco	CA	To protect wildlife, as well as our natural water resources from more future pollution.
13,285	8:09 pm PDT, May 26	Diane LaMagdeleine	Countryside	IL
13,284	7:58 pm PDT, May 26	Melissa Matheson	Irvine	CA
13,283	7:39 pm PDT, May 26	sterling showers	york	PA
13,282	3:00 pm PDT, May 26	Carolyn J Kirchner	Ronan	MT	This is really a no brainer to our continued existence.
13,281	2:18 pm PDT, May 26	Nancy Booth	GREENVILLE	PA	We either keep our water clean or we die.
13,280	10:09 am PDT, May 26	john bond	chattanooga	TN
13,279	9:38 am PDT, May 26	Kathleen Shurling	San Francisco	CA
13,278	9:27 am PDT, May 26	Anonymous	San Francisco	CA	Clean water will maintain the health of our bodies, hench the health of our Nation. Seems commons sense to protect the Clean Water Act.
13,277	7:21 am PDT, May 26	Jo Yonan	Jackson	MI	Supporting this cause should need no explaination (it's a no brainer)
13,276	8:42 pm PDT, May 25	Ana Desena	miami	FL	Water is life. You remove that from any environment and you are left with NO environment. President Bush, are you trying to extinct us all? I believe that you do. But if I'm wrong then you will show the evidence to the country.
13,275	5:03 pm PDT, May 25	Shirley Egleston	North Fort Myers	FL	Clean water is essential for continued life on this earth.
13,274	5:29 pm PDT, May 24	Anonymous	Pasco	WA
13,273	6:07 am PDT, May 24	Steve Hopley	Budgewoi	--
13,272	11:22 pm PDT, May 23	Anonymous	Jacksonville	FL
13,271	12:26 pm PDT, May 23	Maria Nilsson	Karlstad	--	Of course we need to have clean water. Why the doubt?
13,270	10:12 am PDT, May 23	Lonnie White	North Fort Myers	FL
13,269	10:05 pm PDT, May 22	Rev. Damien McLeod	Winterhaven	CA
13,268	12:34 pm PDT, May 22	Mary Verso	Buffalo	NY	How does the EPA and the Bush administration not realize how important the water ecosystems are to the health of the nation and the planet. If Bush really cares about the world like he says he does, then he'll make sure that the environment will do nothing to hurt those he's supposedly attempting to protect.
13,267	8:00 am PDT, May 22	Leah Card	Berryville	AR
13,266	6:53 am PDT, May 22	Kurt-Charles Mueller, HH MBP	Chicago	IL	Please see the UNESCO Manifesto 2000 - Code of Ethics http://www.unesco.org/manifesto2000/default.asp?part=ind/usa/369/uxu
13,265	5:53 am PDT, May 22	Anonymous	Hoffman Estates	IL	People should not be getting sick because of polluted water, and innocent animals should not lose their homes for the same reason! Protect our water!
13,264	12:16 pm PDT, May 21	Gavin Hudson	Davis	CA	It's the resource we neglect the most, yet need the most!
13,263	11:14 am PDT, May 21	Anja E. Goerke	Grand Junction	CO

.>Tell the Bush Administration to protect our water!

I strongly oppose EPA's efforts to eliminate Clean Water Act protections for many of the nation's waters, including streams, wetlands, small ponds and other waters. I urge you not to continue with your announced rulemaking, to rescind the accompanying guidance and to make sure that all of the nation's waters remain protected by the Clean Water Act as they have been for the last 30 years. The proposal and guidance are in direct conflict with the original intent of the Clean Water Act -- to protect all waters of the United States.

Limiting the scope of the Clean Water Act will have devastating effects. Removing essential federal safeguards against destruction and degradation will:

place community water supplies at risk

result in more polluted streams, rivers and coastal waters

increase flooding, as destroyed wetlands will no longer be able to absorb flood waters, and

harm endangered and threatened wildlife species - 43 percent of which rely on wetlands for survival.

Please do not to go forward with any rulemaking proposal to limit the scope of the Clean Water Act and hinder the ability of communities nationwide to safeguard their valuable water resources.

Sincerely,
The Undersigned.

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