WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) led ten Democratic Senators in strongly opposing the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed rule limiting the application of Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, under which states and Tribes would effectively be unable to regulate many of the water quality impacts of hydropower dams within their lands. In their letter (https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Letter-to-EPA-re-Clean-Water-Act-Section-401-Certification-Rule-4.8.26.pdf) to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Assistant Administrator for Water Jess Kramer, the Senators warned that the proposed rule would eviscerate the Clean Water Act's core p...