"Thank you for considering our views."
"On behalf of the American Fisheries Society (AFS), thank you for the opportunity provide testimony on the impacts of the Biden Administration's Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule."
"I ask unanimous consent to insert in the record public comments by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and public comments from different attorneys general, especially the Californi..."
"I also ask unanimous consent to include in the record the latest map produced by EPA that shows the areas of the country that depend on ephemeral and intermittent streams for their drinking water."
"As shown above, you can tell where all the drought is where the ephemeral and intermittent streams meet which are affected most."
"Our members have supported the revised 'Waters of the United States' definition because it meets the purpose of the Clean Water Act."
"What can we do to improve the implementation of the safety projects?"
"What practices have been implemented to protect the workers' rights since these orders?"
"the previous administration ignored the bipartisan traditions of Presidents dating back to President Ronald Reagan in seeking to roll back Clean Water Act protections."
"leadership matters. The successes we have fought for over the past 50 years need to be constantly protected and extended."
"Fortunately, most of these decisions were quickly overturned by federal courts as 'fundamentally flawed' or in violation of federal law."
"Much of California residents and farms receive water that starts as ephemeral or intermittent streams."