PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Editorial: Last month, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) joined forces with 14 of his Senate colleagues in opposing a new Environmental Protection Agency rule that would help protect the drinking water of 117 million Americans, including eight million Pennsylvanians, by restoring the Clean Water Act to its original purpose…
The act was intended to restore and protect the nation’s waters – from creeks and wetlands to roaring rivers – from toxic pollution and destruction. For almost 30 years, it did just that. Regrettably, two Supreme Court decisions removed some waters from federal protection and caused confusion over which waters remain protected…
Instead of fighting for you and the health of your family, Toomey appears to be doing the bidding of polluters who want less regulation and fewer rules of the road. Pennsylvanians can ill afford to have their drinking water compromised by an ideology that puts economic gain for the few above clean water for everyone… (more)
