What a “Green Amendment” Can Do for Environmental Justice

September 6, 2022 by gaftg in MD, National, News, NJ, NM, NY

What a “Green Amendment” Can Do for Environmental Justice

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Water troubles in California force state regulators to place "Tulare Lake basin on “probationary” status for failing to adopt sufficient measures to address chronic overpumping." ... See MoreSee Less

California farming area placed on probation over declining groundwater and sinking land

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California's water board has for the first time put a farming region on probation for failing to adopt measures to curb excessive pumping of groundwater.

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This is why it's so important that we secure an environmental rights amendment ASAP:Supreme Court's decision strips Clean Water Act protections from nearly all streams and rivers in New Mexico."New Mexico, New Hampshire and Massachusetts are the only states without permitting power to regulate how much pollution is in their surface water, making them dependent on federal protections from mining activities, wastewater, agricultural runoff and industrial pollution."The Sackett v Environmental Protection Agency decision issued by the supreme court last May could affect more than half of the nation’s wetlands and up to 4.9m miles of streams, an agency official told CNN. In a landmark ruling, the court found that only “relatively permanent” streams, and wetlands with a “continuous surface connection”, are subject to Clean Water Act protections under the guidance of the EPA."www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/16/new-mexico-rivers-most-threatened#SackettvEPA #EPA #CleanWaterAct #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #Rivers #AmericanRivers #CleanWater #Pollution ... See MoreSee Less

New Mexico’s rivers are most threatened waterways in US, report finds

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Supreme court ruling left more than 90% of state’s surface waters with no pollution protections, since they don’t run continuously

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