Protect wetlands and other opportunities to comment

The EPA has proposed a Polluted Water Rule, which eliminates more streams and wetlands protected under the Clean Water Act. This rule hands corporate polluters a license to damage our country's streams and headwaters. The proposed rule cuts protections for 80% of wetlands and 5 million miles of streams. Major rivers and lakes cannot be effectively protected from pollution if the small streams that flow into them are unprotected. This rule ignores science and puts our drinking water at risk for millions of people.

Comment through the Sierra Club here.
More information here.
EPA "justification"

Also the NC Mining Commission is updating (weakening) the Mining Rules. The Umstead Coalition has suggested comments here.