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For the past three years, the Bush administration has repealed or proposed repealing a number of longstanding environmental laws designed to protect streams from extractive industries, especially mountaintop removal coal mining.  First, in May 2002, the administration repealed a 25-year-old Clean Water Act regulation that prohibited industries from burying streams, wetlands, and other waters with their wastes.  Then, in January 2004, the administration proposed repealing the “Stream Buffer Zone” rule, and allowing coal companies to mine and dump waste right in streams.

It is time for Congress to step in and protect the nation’s waters from these devastating policies that are reversing decades of efforts to preserve streams and wetlands.  Representatives Chris Shays (R-CT) and Frank Pallone (D-NJ) have introduced the Clean Water Protection Act (HR 738) to restore important clean water safeguards against destroying streams and other waters with industrial wastes.  Please contact your representative today and ask him or her to co-sponsor this important and urgently needed legislation.