From the Center for Biological Diversity:
While the Center and other conservation, health, food-safety, organic and sustainable-farming groups are working hard to reduce the amount of toxic pesticides entering our waterways, drinking water supplies and wildlife habitats, the chemical industry and its allies in Congress are busy with legislation to strip important federal protections that can be used to limit pesticide contamination. Arguing that clean-water permit requirements are burdensome, the chemical industry’s politicians introduced the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011, which would weaken the Clean Water Act and lead to further pollution of our nation’s waterways with harmful pesticides…Read more and send a message to your Congressional representatives on their website.