Political Quotes

“the PERMIT Act is the bill you offer when you don't want to protect clean water. It is a very sad and extreme bill. With respect to my good friend, Chairman Babin, this amendment only makes it worse. In 2023, the Supreme Court gutted clean water protections that we have relied on since the 1980s, and now, the Trump administration is trying to make it the law that Americans don't deserve clean water. Already today, clean water protections have been defanged, leaving up to 80 percent of our streams and 50 percent of our wetlands at risk of pollution or destruction, but my House Republican friends have offered this bill that further rolls back the remaining protections on clean water. Mr. Chair, there are a couple of articles this week that highlight why this is so important. In Louisville, Kentucky, their water facility recently investigated why they had a spike in PFAS, so-called forever chemicals, and found out that a superconductor plant, Chemours, had dumped a PFAS called GenX into the water. This is a company that knowingly violated the allowable dumping limits several times. The only way that folks knew that they were able to address this was when they found out that Chemours had been violating its Clean Water Act permit. Louisville citizens have not only had to pay for upgrades to make up for their company's violations, but now they face serious health risks.”