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Clean Water at Risk
A 30th Anniversary Assessment of the Bush Administration's Rollback of Clean Water Protections
This October 2002 NRDC report -- issued on the 30th anniversary of the passage of the Clean Water Act -- assesses the impact this landmark environmental law has had on the safety and environmental health of the nation's waterways, documents the Bush administration's sustained attack on clean water protections, and urges that this retreat from the spirit of one of our most successful and popular environmental laws be rejected.
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OVERVIEW & QUICK REFERENCE
Press Release
FULL REPORT IN PDF
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
The Clean Water Act: History, Results and Challenges
Bush Administration Attacks on the Clean Water Act
Conclusion
Endnotes
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