Last Wednesday, the Southern Environmental Law Center filed a 65-page petition asking the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency to revoke North Carolina’s authority to regulate its water pollution and discharge permits due to ongoing political interference by the NC state legislature. [More about the key players is HERE and HERE.]
The slideshow below is a pared-down version of the petition, highlighting some of the key points. Every person who has asked “why isn’t the NCDEQ monitoring Deep River or enforcing the Randleman Watershed Rules or responding to our Public Comments” needs to read and share this. We’ve added images and red pen to help bring it into context. All of the typed text is excerpted from the petition, and larger images are below the slideshow:
If it’s easier to see and scroll down through the actual images, those are shown below:
