Act for Egrets and Clean Water

The great egret feeds on fish and other small animals in a variety of wetland habitats. As more wetlands are drained and filled or polluted, great egrets’ nesting and foraging areas will be destroyed.

The House of Representatives will vote soon on the PERMIT Act—which would abandon Clean Water Act safeguards that protect waters that serve as healthy drinking water supplies, mitigate damage from flooding and drought, and provide fish and wildlife habitat. Urge your representative to vote NO on the PERMIT Act.

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Dear Representative {user_data~US Rep Last name},

I am writing to urge you to oppose H.R. 3898, the PERMIT Act, which would weaken commonsense Clean Water Act safeguards and jeopardize the waters that I – and communities and wildlife across the country – rely on. These waters are not only essential to our drinking water supplies, they also help keep communities safe in the face of flooding and drought, and serve as fish and wildlife habitat.

This legislation abandons key Clean Water Act safeguards that aim to protect our waters – an ability that is already weakened in light of a 2023 Supreme Court decision. H.R. 3898 contains several damaging provisions that would put the interests of developers and industrial dischargers above our right to clean, healthy waters, including provisions that:

●	Prevent effective judicial review of projects that fill in and destroy wetlands and other waters;
●	Make it easier for industrial operations to dump “forever chemicals” like PFAS and other contaminants into our waters without accountability;
●	Slow down EPA’s process for updating water quality criteria;
●	Reduce the longstanding authority of states and Tribes to protect local waters under section 401 of the Clean Water Act;
●	Drastically restrict the EPA’s authority to stop highly damaging projects like Pebble Mine from destroying fisheries and wetlands;
●	Grant authority to the Army Corps of Engineers to create new exclusions for any kind of waterbody from being afforded Clean Water Act protections, despite this being EPA’s authority;
●	Eliminate protections for people and wildlife from harmful pesticide discharges into our waters, upending the existing system in place to allow pesticide use while minimizing harm caused by pesticides entering our surface waters;
●	Weaken the Army Corps of Engineers’ nationwide permitting program.

At a time when agency and budget cuts, aging water infrastructure, and changing precipitation patterns as a result of climate change threaten to worsen water quality challenges, Congress should heed the public and protect Clean Water Act safeguards, not weaken them.

Please vote no on H.R. 3898.

Sincerely,
{user_data~First Name} {user_data~Last Name}

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