Your Calls and Emails Needed to Protect the Clean Water Act

Senator Barbara Boxer chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which voted on June 18th to pass the Clean Water Restoration Act (S. 787) out of committee.  Your calls and emails were essential to this success - thank you!!  With the bill moved out of committee, we now have momentum for the full Senate to take up the bill.  Keep the momentum going during the upcoming Congressional recess - your calls and emails to both Senator Boxer and Senator Feinstein continue to be critical. S. 787 addresses recent federal agency rollbacks regarding the number of waterways protected by the federal Clean Water Act, following U.S. Supreme Court decisions that raised but left unanswered questions about the scope of the Act.  Many California waterways, particularly seasonal wetlands and intermittent streams, and even the Los Angeles River, are now exposed to significantly increased pollution because of these rollbacks.  The Clean Water Restoration Act would again offer pollution protection to these California waterways.  For more background, see here.  Please call your local office for Senator Boxer and Senator Feinstein today, and ask them to strongly support the Clean Water Restoration Act (S. 787) when it comes to the floor.  Thank you!