The recent Supreme Court ruling in Sackett v. EPA denied wetlands of Clean Water Act protections by redefining “waterway” to exclude any bodies of water not "adjacent to" larger bodies of water — stripping the only defense many swamps, bogs, estuaries, and other wetlands had. Now, we stand at a critical juncture in the fight to defend our precious and dwindling water resources.

Here's what's at stake: If Congress doesn’t pass a bill to give wetlands the protections they need, we will lose the critical benefits they provide. Wetlands help fight the climate crisis and its impacts by:

• Improving water and air quality by removing pollutants.
• Acting as a highly effective, natural defense against floods and shoreline erosion.
• Mitigating climate change by absorbing ozone-destroying carbon from our environment.

Not only is preserving wetlands important in combating climate change, but destroying wetlands could actually release the massive amounts of carbon they’ve already absorbed — something we can not allow to happen if we hope to stop global warming.

If we allow the Supreme Court’s ruling to stand, we risk irreversible damage to our environment, compromising water and air quality, flood resilience, and biodiversity.

What happens upstream affects us all. Sign our petition to urge Congress to protect our precious wetlands.