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***Media Advisory***
Press Conference on the West Virginia Legislature’s War on Water
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Gary Zuckett, West Virginia Citizen Action Group, 304.437.3701, garyz@wvcag.org
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Charleston, WV – The West Virginia Legislature has declared an all-out war on water. Lawmakers have already passed both HB 2506 and HB 2811, bills that weaken protections on streams and rivers which are sources for much of our drinking water. SB 687 is now poised to pass in the House of Delegates.
HB 2506 will allow more cancer-causing toxins to be dumped into our water supply, and has been presented to the Governor for his signature. The West Virginia Environmental Council delivered a petition signed by concerned citizens from across the state asking the Governor to veto this dangerous piece of legislation.
HB 2811 further weakens the protections of the Aboveground Storage Tank Act (ASTA) by exempting tanks holding fluids produced by the fossil fuel industry. Although we were able to retain the registry aspect for these tanks, HB 2811 still exempts nearly 2,300 oil and gas tanks from regulation under the ASTA.
SB 687 would make our water quality standards among the weakest in the nation in protecting stream life. The bill changes the state’s narrative water quality standards, abandoning a scientifically backed method for detecting harm to a stream’s biological health.
We need to stand strong in our opposition to this misguided idea that a thriving energy industry in West Virginia necessitates environmental destruction. We must find common ground that does not endanger the public’s health and irrevocably damage our state’s greatest natural resource, its abundant water supply.
Send a letter to your delegates ask them to respect science and protect stream health by rejecting changes to water quality standards in SB 687!
Representatives of several member organizations will be on hand to make statements.
Press Conference:
West Virginia Legislature’s War on Water
West Virginia State Capitol
McManus Room, 252M
Thursday, April 6, 2017
10:30am
The fact that West Virginia has become a liberal state is hard enough but for those in power to behave as egregiously as those in DC is abhorrent. Lack of responsible and logical behavior, by those in power will continue to prove that stupid people are in power and their brains are somewhere between a brick and a houseplant.
I don’t know that West Virginia could be called a liberal state by any stretch of the imagination. We have been in the “Red” since at least 2012. I don’t disagree that our leaders show a lack of responsibility or logical behavior though.