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Get Involved in Restoring Your River - Join a River Cleanup
National River Cleanup® provides a great way for you and your community to make a difference on your local river. Just a few hours outside can remove tons of trash from the rivers and streams that provide your drinking water.
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Tell Congress: Don't Slash Funding for Restoring and Protecting Our Rivers
The federal government provides critical funding for river restoration projects that help improve river habitats for endangered wildlife and create jobs for local economies. Will you send a message to Congress urging them to protect funding for river conservation programs?
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Stop the Chesapeake Bay Dirty Water Bill
Take action to protect the Bay from a bad bill that sets a dangerous precedent to weaken Clean Water Act protections across the country. The "Chesapeake Bay Program Reauthorization and Improvement Act" bill would derail ongoing efforts to clean up the Bay by undermining new pollution limits for the Chesapeake.
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Thank President Obama for Making Rivers a Budget Priority
Through the Rivers Initiative, the President’s 2013 budget prioritizes river restoration and recreation projects in all 50 states. It also supports the development of a National Water Trails System to recognize communities which rediscover, restore, and reconnect with rivers.
Unfortunately, this is a challenging budget year, and Congress may slash funding for rivers and clean water.
That’s why we need to urge the Administration to stand strong for its vision of healthy rivers. Let President Obama know that you support funding for keeping our rivers healthy.
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Protect Our Rivers and Communities: Remove 100 Dams in 2012
Contact your state legislators and ask them to restore our rivers and protect our communities by supporting the removal of outdated dams.
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Don't Frack the Upper Delaware River
Since American Rivers listed the Upper Delaware River as America's Most Endangered River of 2010, the Delaware River Basin Commission has been drafting regulations to manage the development of natural gas reserves in the river basin. But the Commission hasn't conducted a study of the cumulative impacts of fracking.
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Protect Your Rivers for Future Generations
Big polluters and their allies in Congress are waging assaults on protections for our clean drinking water. It’s time for the Obama Administration to make good on its commitment to clean water by restoring protections to small streams and wetlands under the Clean Water Act. Tell the Obama Administration that you support restoring clean water protections to keep your local waters safe enough to get your drinking water from and clean enough to fish and swim in!
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Protect the Black Warrior River From Toxic Strip Mining Waste
Alabama’s Black Warrior River is recognized for its beauty, outstanding recreational opportunities, rare aquatic species, and as a major drinking water source for two of Alabama's largest cities. It is also home to 95 active coal mines -- the majority of Alabama’s coal mines. Tell the Army Corps of Engineers to stop rubber-stamping mining permits and close permitting loopholes that let big polluters damage streams and wetlands.
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Ask President Obama to Protect Our Rivers and Our Communities
Wetlands and floodplains are our natural defenses against flooding. They reduce the risk of flooding by slowing and storing flood waters, helping to keep our communities, homes, and businesses safe. Natural flood mitigation approaches can have a huge pay off as well - every dollar invested in mitigation yields $5 in avoided losses. Tell President Obama to protect our rivers by protecting the wetlands and floodplains that act as our natural lines of defense against flooding.
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Protect the Ozark National Scenic Riverways from overuse and poor management
The Ozark National Scenic Riverways feature clear water flowing from abundant springs and provide some of the Midwest’s best river recreation to more than one million visitors each year. However, poor management has led to motor vehicles and horses approaching and entering the river wherever they can, destroying vegetation, and causing severe erosion and pollution. Tell the National Park Service to protect the Ozark National Scenic Riverways like other national parks.
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Protect the Wild and Scenic St. Croix River
The St. Croix, protected as a Wild and Scenic river, provides a wealth of beautiful scenery, recreation opportunities for paddlers and anglers, and a haven for wildlife. However, a proposal to build a costly highway bridge would set a precedent for weakening Wild and Scenic protections for rivers nationwide. Tell your representatives not to weaken Wild and Scenic protections for the St. Croix river that could harm Wild and Scenic rivers nationwide.
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Protect the Hoback River from Natural Gas Development
The Hoback River is treasured for its clean water, spectacular scenery, and thriving native cutthroat trout fishery. But natural gas drilling in the river’s headwaters threatens the Hoback and local residents with toxic pollution. Tell the Forest Service Supervisor Jackqueline Buchanan to protect the Hoback River from natural gas fracking.
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Protect the Green River's Clean Water from Mining
Southwest Washington’s Green River provides drinking water to downstream communities. However, the river’s clean water and wildlife are threatened by a large proposed mine. Unless the Forest Service acquires the mineral rights to block the drilling and proposed mine, and Congress forever safeguards the river with a Wild and Scenic designation, this river and its communities will be at risk from toxic pollution. Tell Washington representatives to protect the Green River with Wild and Scenic designation.
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Protect the Yuba River's Salmon from Dams
The Yuba River is one of California’s last refuges for spring-run Chinook salmon and provides drinking and agricultural water and recreation opportunities to surrounding communities. However, two federal dams have damaged river health and blocked access to more than 120 miles of historic salmon and steelhead habitat for 70 years. Tell the Army Corps to provide fish passage at the dams to help save the important salmon and steelhead runs.
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Stop Dumping Raw Sewage into the Chicago River
Every day, the Cook County Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) dumps 1.2 billion gallons of wastewater into the Chicago River. This wastewater – which isn’t disinfected – comprises 70 percent of all the water in the Chicago River. Tell them to approve the Illinois EPA’s proposed disinfection rule and require MWRD to join modern municipalities across the country in requiring disinfection of sewage.
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Protect the Roanoke River's Clean Water from Uranium Mining
The Roanoke River, flowing from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, provides water to more than one million people for drinking, farming, fishing, and boating. However, companies want to mine a major uranium deposit on one of its tributaries. Uranium mining, processing, and waste disposal would leave a toxic, radioactive legacy in the watershed for centuries. Tell Virginia lawmakers to keep the Roanoke's drinking water clean and protected from uranium mining.
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Protect Bristol Bay from Destructive Open Pit Mining
The rivers of Bristol Bay are wild and pristine. Unfortunately, this one of a kind resource is threatened by a mine of staggering scale that would cause irreversible damage to the rivers, clean water, salmon, and an entire way of life. Tell the EPA to not allow the Pebble Mine to proceed.
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Stop Natural Gas Development in the Susquehanna River Basin
On the one year anniversary of the BP oil spill, another industry disaster is contaminating streams and threatening water supplies in Pennsylvania. A natural gas well blew out during fracking operations, sending thousands of gallons of toxic fluid — containing hazardous chemicals, some potentially cancer-causing — over fields and into Towanda Creek, which feeds the Susquehanna River and supplies water for millions of people in the area. Tell the Commission to put a complete moratorium on fracking until we can better protect our clean water.
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