Speak Out

Let your voice be heard! Every day our elected representatives and government officials make decisions that impact our environment. Your voice matters, and we encourage you to let the decision-makers know how you feel about issues that affect our waters. Click on the links below to send a letter about an important issue.

Send a letter about an issue

Tell the Water Board to Protect Our Special Coastal Areas
In a surprise move, the California State Water Resources Control Board just dusted off an old, draft policy from the era of Governor Schwarzenegger and is poised to approve a complicated dirty water waiver to protections that safeguard the most fragile parts of California's coastal marine ecosystem – places known as Areas of Special Biological Significance (ASBS). Urban stormwater runoff is the largest source of pollution to California’s coastal waters. Yet the State Board is proposing to weaken a 40-year old prohibition on stormwater waste into ASBS by adopting an approach that could reward over 1700 illegal discharges into some of the most special coastal areas in California. Find ASBS in your area: http://www.cacoastkeeper.org/programs/healthy-marine-habitats/ASBS. Please take action by Monday, October 17 and tell the Water Board that California’s coast deserves all of the benefits of existing law and that a roll back of these protections is bad for California and the marine life that thrives in its coastal waters.

Stop the National Attack on Clean Water
Our beaches, bays and rivers are under attack. The U.S. Congress is currently considering a number of bills (H.R. 2018, H.R. 872 and H.R. 2584) that would gut the Clean Water Act and hamstring the agencies that protect our waterways. Please take a moment to tell your representative that clean fishable, swimmable and drinkable water is important to you.

Help Protect Our National Forests Against Poorly Planned Energy Projects
The integrity of Cleveland National Forest and the surrounding Southern California communities currently face threats from the Talega-Escondido/Valley-Serrano 500 kV Interconnect (TE/VS) and the associated Lake Elsinore Advanced Pumped Storage (LEAPS) project. Currently proposed by The Nevada Hydro Company, the development of the TE/VS transmission lines and LEAPS hydroelectric dam is not cost efficient and would have negative and irrevocable impacts on the surrounding protected land, watershed, wildlife, and residents of the Inland Empire. We cannot open the door for energy corridors in our National Forests and other protected areas. Please help Inland Empire Waterkeeper voice our concerns and let the California Public Utilities Commission know there is strong community opposition to the project as they prepare the Environmental Impact Report.