POLLUTION-FREE OCEANS, LAKES, RIVERS, STREAMS, AND WETLANDS
Click the links below to read REP’s statements on water issues.
REP’S OWN PUBLICATIONS
- Restoring clarity to the Clean Water Act, by former Congressman Sherwood Boehlert (R, NY), C.E.P Quarterly, summer 2007, Vol 3, #2
- Biting the Hand That Feeds Us: The folly of Bristol Bay oil drilling, by REP Government Affairs Director David Jenkins, C.E.P Quarterly, spring 2007, Vol 3, #1
- In Florida, Life Really Is a Beach: Coastline an economic engine that drilling endangers, by REP Policy Director Jim DiPeso, C.E.P Quarterly, spring 2007, Vol 3, #1
- Why REP supports the EPA, written in response to a letter asking why REP supported the EPA, both then published in The Green Elephant, winter 1998
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SPEECHES
- Politics, Pollution and the GOP, by REP Government Affairs Director David Jenkins, Society of Environmental Journalists conference, Miami, October 2011
- Yet, Congress has failed to act, by REP President Rob Sisson, at a National Wildlife Federation event near the Kalamazoo River oil spill, July 2010
- The Farm Bill: When water, energy, trade, and budget issues collide, by Policy Director Jim DiPeso, at REP’s Washington Chapter annual meeting in Spokane, on September 15, 2007
- River activists are patriots! by Martha Marks, keynote speech to the River Alliance of Wisconsin’s annual dinner on November 9, 2002
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A SAMPLE OF REP’S “THANK YOUS” TO GOP ELECTED OFFICIALS
To Senator Ted Stevens for restoring EPA funding to federal budget, October 2004
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RECOMMENDED READING ON OTHER WEBSITES
The Bipartisan Beginning of the Clean Water Act, from the Waterkeeper Alliance, January 30, 2019
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Photo at top: In 1928, Republican President Calvin Coolidge protected the 74,000 acres of land, riparian corridors, and high-quality wetlands at Bear River National Migratory Bird Refuge in northern Utah. (photo © Martha Marks)