A Sickening Change in Water Quality Rules

Today’s Los Angeles Times features an Op-Ed by Mark Gold, Heal the Bay’s former president, about his disappointment with new EPA beach water quality criteria that actually weaken public health protections for millions of recreational ocean users. It’s now OK for one in 28 people to get sick when they take a dip in the sea, the EPA says. Crazy, huh? 

Read more of Gold’s thoughts and please urge the EPA to amend these ill-conceived regulatory revisions.