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Advocacy

  • Trump Administration Clean Water Rule Repeal Threatens Water Quality

    on June 28, 2017

    Pipeline Projects Will Face Fewer Obstacles Washington, DC (June 28, 2017) By starting the process of repealing the Clean Water Rule yesterday, the Trump Administration…


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  • DEAN NAUJOKS

    Participate in the EPA Virtual Hearing October 10!

    on October 4, 2019

    Would you be willing to take a minute of your time to tell EPA weakening…


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  • Brent Walls, Upper Potomac Riverkeeper

    PFOA/PFAS – Testing Results

    on August 9, 2019

    As part of my work to investigate and remediate pollution in the Upper Potomac, I recently conducted a stream assessment for the presence of…


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  • Comments on the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Draft Chesapeake Bay TMDL Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan

    on August 8, 2019

    Read the PRNK and Shenandoah Riverkeeper comments on the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Draft Chesapeake Bay TMDL Phase II Watershed Implementation Plan


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  • Help Us Preserve the Appalachian Trail and Shenandoah!

    on June 12, 2019

    Don’t let Dominion do an end run around the courts and federal agencies – we need…


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  • Help us stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline from being built across the Appalachian Trail and Blue Ridge Parkway!

    on May 20, 2019

    Help us stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline from being built across the Appalachian Trail and Blue Ridge Parkway! …


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  • Comments to 2018 Virginia Water Quality Assessment Integrated Report

    on April 10, 2019

    We are continuing our fight to force the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to fulfill its duty to identify the North Fork, South…


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  • Help Us Protect Clean Water! File your comments to protect the Clean Water Act today!

    on April 7, 2019

    Clean water is fundamental to our health and our way of life. For nearly 50 years, the Clean Water Act…


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    EPA Mercury and Air Toxics Standard Testimony

    on March 18, 2019

    Today I testified before the EPA about their proposed rulemaking which would weaken the Mercury an Air Toxics…


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  • Public Hearing on Closing Possum Point

    on February 11, 2019

    Join me at the Department of Environmental Quality public hearing on closing Possum Point coal ash ponds,…


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  • Brent Walls

    Join Us for A Public Hearing Against a Mining Permit in Pennsylvania

    on January 27, 2019

    On Wednesday, January 30, support us, 


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NWF Water@NWFwater·
19 Oct

Happy anniversary to the #CleanWaterAct! For 47 years, this law has helped make our waters better for #fishing, #drinking, and swimming. It also helps protect our wetlands & streams from pollution and destruction and helped conserve critical fish & #wildlife habitat.

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Blue Water Baltimore@BlueWaterBmore·
19 Oct

Today, we’re celebrating the @epa's 47th anniversary of the #CleanWaterAct. Why should you care? Because THIS is worth protecting. https://t.co/d26ev4eNHm #Baltimore #CleanWater #ProtectCleanWater @EPAwater

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