The end of the regular session of the Florida Legislature closed on March 9th. Clean Water Action had several victories in defeating legislation and worked to amend other legislation that would have had a negative impact on water quality. In 2011, Clean Water Action with input from our members and in cooperation with our allies, set out a state legislative agenda asking elected officials to include public health, clean and safe water, and clean energy in the top tier of their 2012 Legislative priorities.

Don't sit on the sidelines

We all want an efficient, streamlined government, but we also need to have balance to ensure we don't dismantle or disregard key public health and environmental protections. Florida's economy and our residents depend on having clean and safe water. Today, at all levels of government we are seeing an attack on water quality protections. At the state and federal level attempts are being made to gut fundamental water quality laws that protect our residents.

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