Clean Water Action

Protective standards must include no carveouts, and must secure the substantial, science-based pollution reductions needed to help address the climate crisis and to ensure healthy communities.

Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund respectfully submit these comments regarding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Review of National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Lead and Copper Rule Revisions (LCRR).

Los logros de 2020 preparan el escenario para un progreso continuo en la protección de nuestra agua y nuestra salud A pesar de las circunstancias muy desafiantes del año pasado — una administración hostil antiambiente y el devastador costo de salud de la pandemia del coronavirus, así como las interrupciones sociales y económicas — el año 2020 demostró ser sorprendentemente productivo, en cada una de las áreas prioritarias del programa de Clean Water Action:

2020 accomplishments set the stage for continued progress protecting our water and our health. Despite the past year’s very challenging circumstances — a hostile anti-environment administration and the coronavirus pandemic’s devastating health toll, social and economic disruptions — 2020 proved to be surprisingly productive, in each of Clean Water Action’s priority program areas.

The science is clear: PFAS have been linked to serious health problems through decades of animal, worker, and human studies. Unfortunately, EPA has failed to take steps to restrict air and water releases, reduce PFAS in our tap water, or clean up the nation's most contaminated sites. H.R. 2467 will set clear deadlines requiring EPA to do just that.

Over the last decade of research and advocacy, Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund has found that activities essential to oil and gas operations cannot be conducted without regulatory and legislative loopholes that put water at risk.