WASHINGTON – Today, the Supreme Court heard from the nation’s most egregious polluters – including oil and gas companies, mining, and developers, along with their pro-polluter allies in Congress – who are trying to change one of our nation’s best protections for our water—the Clean Water Act and block the Environmental Protection Agency from safeguarding our public waters.
En respuesta al plan propuesto, Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes, Directora de Iniciativas Estratégicas de GreenLatinos, emitió la siguiente declaración:
“Our water is deeply connected – it is as connected in our earth as we are connected to it and our very own survival. If the Supreme Court, in its ruling in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, were to hold that the Clean Water Act excludes most wetlands and streams, this would pose a grave danger to communities across the country, especially our Latino/a/x communities that already see much of the pollution caused by polluters not the people. Según encuestas recientes, 71 percent of Latino/a/x people say that pollution in rivers, lakes and streams is a very big or moderately big issue in their communities. Low-wealth communities, Indigenous communities, and other communities of color all too often bear the brunt of toxic pollution, flooding, and excessive industrial development.”
Ean Tafoya, director del programa de Colorado para GreenLatinos agregó:
“Es más, los peticionarios piden a la Corte que limite significativamente la forma en que definimos las aguas protegidas, lo que podría ampliar drásticamente la capacidad del sector privado para explotar, contaminar o destruir ecosistemas que hoy desempeñan un papel fundamental en la salvaguardia de uno de nuestros recursos más preciados. La Corte Suprema debe defender las salvaguardias de larga data de la Ley de Agua Limpia para la salud de todas las comunidades”.
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