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| Streams and wetlands in Connecticut are at risk of unlimited pollution, according to the report Courting Disaster: How the Supreme Court has broken the Clean Water Act and why Congress must fix it, released today by Environment Connecticut. The report provides more than thirty case studies demonstrating how the federal Clean Water Act has been weakened by Bush-era Supreme Court rulings, including a case involving wetlands neighboring the Farmington River. Environment Connecticut is calling on the U.S. House of Representatives to restore the Act to its intended purpose and ensure that all waterways are protected from unrestricted contamination. | |
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| Fossil fuels (oil, coal and natural gas) pollute the air with smog, soot and global warming pollution, but their effect on water is often overlooked. Natural gas, which the industry touts as the “cleanest of all fossil fuels,” threatens to dirty drinking water with toxic chemicals used in drilling.i Rivers, lakes and groundwater already face threats from industrial pollution, agricultural runoff, and overdevelopment. Adding an unnecessary threat to one of the most valuable resources is dangerous. The government must act to safeguard drinking water. | |
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| Our nation’s coast has wonderful beaches, marshes, remarkable underwater ecosystems and amazing wildlife, all of which would be threatened by more offshore oil drilling currently under debate in Washington DC. According to a new report released by Environment America and the Sierra Club, our clean beaches and oceans support a vibrant coastal tourism and fishing economy that generates almost $200 billion per year. The report makes it clear that clean beaches and oceans are worth more than drilling for the last drops of oil. | |
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| Industrial facilities dumped nearly 440 thousand pounds of toxic chemicals into Connecticut’s waterways, according to a report today by Environment Connecticut: Wasting Our Waterways: Industrial Toxic Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act. | |
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| In 2005 there were more beach closings and advisories than at any other time in the 16 years the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been tracking them. | |
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| When drafting the Clean Water Act in 1972, legislators set the goals of making all waterways fishable and swimmable by 1983 and eliminating the discharge of pollutants into the nation’s waterways by 1985. More than 30 years later, we are far from realizing the Clean Water Act’s original vision. | |
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