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Executive Summary
Environment America is the new home of U.S. PIRG's environmental work.
October 18, 2007 marks the 35th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, a landmark law intended to restore
and maintain the physical, chemical and biological integrity of the nation’s waters. In passing the
Clean Water Act, Congress set the goals of eliminating the discharge of pollutants into the nation’s
waterways by 1985 and making all U.S. waterways fishable and swimmable by 1983. Although we have
made significant progress in improving water quality since the passage of the Clean Water Act, we are far
from realizing the Act’s original vision.
Using information provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to a Freedom
of Information Act request, this report analyzes all major facilities that exceeded their Clean Water Act
permits between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2005; reveals the type of pollutants they are
discharging into our waterways; and details the extent to which these facilities are exceeding their permit
levels.
More than two decades after the drafters of the 1972 Clean Water Act intended for the discharge of all
pollutants to be eliminated, facilities across the country continue to violate pollution limits, at times
egregiously. Click here to download state appendices: Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
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Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
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