The Clean Water Act has lofty goals, and then it has some nonregulatory programs, and some regulatory programs.
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I happen to support strongly, don't fill the void left by the Sackett decision?
We are just regular guys and gals. Welcome. Thanks for that testimony, especially for your close.
We should think long and hard before eliminating protections for more than half of our wetlands.
The Sackett decision, in my view, has jeopardized nearly a half-century of progress under this bedrock environmental law.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court failed to recognize this link in May of this year when the conservative majority upended more than four decades of agency practice and precedent based on the original intent of the law.
Thanks to champions like Senator Ed Muskie, a Democrat from Maine, ... Congress enacted the Clean Water Act in 1972.
As a matter of science, we have heard that wetlands and more than a million miles of streams are inextricably linked to downstream water quality.
Removing protection for wetlands is especially shortsighted as climate change continues to fuel more extreme weather events, which we witness almost daily.
Before the Clean Water Act, our Nation's waters were subject to indiscriminate pollution and destruction.
This battle, Erin, between democracy and autocracy will be the defining battle of this century.
He agreed that what he would do is open the gate to do two things. One, let up to 20 trucks through to begin with.
I can understand why in this circumstance, they wouldn't believe. I can understand that. I'm not suggesting that Hamas literally did it either, and it's not the first time Hamas has launched something that malfunctioned.
The U.S. will be giving $100 million for humanitarian assistance and that Israel has agreed to allow food, water, medicine, through the Rafah Gate -- through the Rafah Border Crossing into southern Gaza
I agreed to allow about 20 -- up to 20 was the president's phrasing -- humanitarian trucks into Gaza.
I can understand why this circumstance they wouldn't meet. I can understand that.