REI's role in privitizing, motorizing and commercializing public lands. Less than a month after Bluewater petitioned EPA to regulate snowmobile emissions, the agency announced that they will begin the rulemaking process. The Battle Over Snowmobiles Snowmobiles are overunning our National Parks with air, water and noise pollution, and are in violation of the National Park charter. A Ticking Bomb Bluewater Network provided research to the San Francisco Chronicle for this two-part cover story on MTBE contamination nationwide. Millions of gallons of raw fuel are discharged by two-stroke engines into reservoirs nationwide.
Most states are unaware of the problem.
Making Waves Cities and counties across the country are regulating jet ski use. States and some Federal Agencies are joining in. Bluewater Network Settles Lawsuit with Recreation Industry Over Pollution by Jet Skis and Snowmobiles. Banned at Chattahoochee National Recreation Area. Chattahoochee NRA is the 20th park to implement a ban.