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04/12/2016
Every American has the right to know whether the streams and rivers running through their backyards and neighborhood parks are safe for their kids to play in or dogs to splash through. But the Izaak Walton League found that state water quality monitoring in streams across the country is haphazard and limited, leaving Americans in the dark about the health of local waters – and potentially leaving pollution undetected.
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02/09/2016
For years, the president and Congress have raided the conservation “piggy bank,” repeatedly slashing Farm Bill funding levels set by law. For the first time in many years, the president's budget proposal includes no cuts to these critical conservation programs.
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12/16/2015
America’s hunting and angling groups are pleased to see that the federal budget bill does not include a rider to block or delay a rule restoring Clean Water Act protections to smaller streams and adjacent wetlands.
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12/15/2015
Longstanding efforts by the Izaak Walton League of America to reduce mercury in the environment got a boost today when a federal appeals court ruled EPA can continue to implement a major regulation that will cut harmful emissions.
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11/06/2015
Conserving and protecting natural resources is fundamentally important to the League. The League also supports a transition from fossil fuels to clean and reliable renewable energy resources, including solar and wind.
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