Iowa's Attorney General has signed on to this. If you know Tom Miller 
please thank him.

We are Halfway to Reaching Our Goal! Ask Your State’s Attorney General to Help Maintain Protections for Streams, Rivers, Wetlands  

DEADLINE EXTENDED Thursday, January 12

As you know, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear two important Clean Water Act cases – Carabell v. United States and United States v. Rapanos – that address whether the Clean Water Act protects tributaries that flow into larger water bodies and their adjacent wetlands and whether Congress has the authority under the Constitution’s Commerce Clause to protect such waters.  A negative ruling could remove all federal limits on pollution and destruction of millions of acres of valuable wetlands and countless streams that have been protected since the Clean Water Act’s passage in 1972. 

We are halfway to reaching our goal of having 30 Attorneys General in support of the amicus brief favoring clean water. Below is a list of states already signed onto the brief.

Two years ago, when we defeated the EPA’s Rulemaking to narrow the scope of the Clean Water Act, more than 30 AGs signed comments opposing the rulemaking. The consequences of a negative Supreme Court ruling (especially a Constitutional one) are far worse than the proposed rulemaking by the White House two years ago so we absolutely need that kind of support again from the states’ AGs!

TAKE ACTION:

If your organization or anyone you know has good contacts with your State’s Attorney General’s office or with the director of the State environmental agency please contact them to ask your State’s Attorney General to join in an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court on the side of clean water.  (Some AG’s will only sign on if they have heard from the environmental agency.) 

The New York and Michigan’s Attorneys General’s offices are leading this effort.  They have already circulated a cover memo and draft brief to all state AG’s through the National Association of Attorneys General, so your AG’s office should be familiar with the issue and have seen these documents.  

If you are interested in helping with this very important effort, we have just two days to encourage as many AG’s as possible to get on board.  

Please act TODAY.  Contact one of the following CWN Steering Committee members for an update and a copy of the relevant documents:

Joan Mulhern, Earthjustice, [log in to unmask], 202-667-4500 Navis Bermudez, Sierra Club, [log in to unmask], 202-675-2392 Jon Devine, NRDC, [log in to unmask], 202-289-6868 Jim Murphy, NWF, [log in to unmask], 802-229-0650

States that are already signed onto the amicus brief: CA, CT, DC, DE, IL,  IA, ME, MD, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NY, TN, VT, WI.

Thank you very much.
 

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