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Your voice can make a difference in the fight to stop pollution. Sound Rivers’ Action Alerts are set up to make it super-easy for you to weigh in on what matters to you. Since here, we already know you care about the health of your waterways — waterways that belong to YOU, not polluters. Here’s an opportunity to make your voice heard, whether you’re weighing in on permit being considered, ineffective regulations contributing to pollution or legislation that will codify harms to your waterways into law.
Sound Rivers’ Action Alerts are pre-written, but you can always add your own comments to the draft message, or even delete the draft message altogether and make it wholly your own. All that’s needed is your name and email address (occasionally, an Action Alert will ask for your physical address, solely to identify which elected official your email will be sent to).
If Sound Rivers has not created an Action Alert for any listing below, contact and other relevant information is available.
Speak Up Against the EPA’s Disastrous Rollback of Wetland Protections
On Sept. 9, the EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to drastically limit federal protection to wetlands and streams … again. This “Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” goes much farther than the proposed change to the definition of “Waters of the United States” released in November 2025.
If this is approved, an estimated 79% of streams and 95% of our nation’s individual wetlands — headwaters and wetlands that do not contain water year-round — are at risk of being dredged, drained, dumped in and destroyed.
Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop has written the petition explaining why this is a bad idea. Now we need your help in adding as many signatures as possible to it. All you have to do is sign the petition. Then pass the link along to anyone you know who cares about clean water, flood resiliency and protecting critical habitat for our state’s fisheries.
Make your voice heard.
Help us make Sound Rivers’ voice heard.
The very short comment period ends Oct. 9.
Read Samantha’s statement and sign the petition here.
Read about the proposed change in the piece by attorneys with Ward and Smith, P.A.: “WOTUS 2026: The Pendulum Swings Narrower Still as Agencies Supplement Their Proposal.”