In Massachusetts, Clean Water Action is a founding member of the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow (AHT), a coalition of citizens, scientists, health professionals, workers, and educators seeking preventive action on toxic hazards. Our goal is to correct fundamental flaws in government policies that allow harm to our health and environment.

Clean Water Action has brought together a statewide alliance of environmental, consumer and public health groups. The focus of the Campaign is to provide safe and affordable drinking water to residents of Massachusetts by advancing policies and practices that protect ecologically important habitat and watershed resources and prevent contamination of drinking water from watershed to water tap.

Discarded computers, laptops, and TVs are a growing problem all across the country. This Ewaste is toxic  and contains hazardous substances like lead, mercury, and selenium, and costs local governments millions of dollars a year to collect and recycle. In Europe, manufacturers of electric and electronics products are required to pay for the collection and recycling their discarded products.  Requiring extended producer responsibility (EPR) for products will give producers a financial incentive to make their products more recylable and less toxic.

Clean Water Action was one of the founding members of the national Electronics Take Back Campaign, which has been successful in persuading the major computer manufacturers – Dell, HP, and Apple – to support mandatory EPR and to pay for their discarded products.  Electronics EPR legislation has been adopted in 10 states and New York City so far, but still needs to be adopted in Massachusetts.

Clean Water Action endorses candidates for office who we believe will be champions for the environment based on candidate's record and endorsement questionnaires.

The fine particle pollution from diesel emissions shortens the lives of an estimated 21,000 people nationwide every year. The Massachusetts Diesel Pollution Solution Coalition (DPS) is committed to reducing the health risks from diesel pollution and has called on state government to create a plan for reducing emissions from diesel vehicles 75% by 2020. This goal would extend and save thousands of lives, improve the health and well being of Massachusetts residents, help mitigate global warming, and yield large economic benefits.

2008 was a banner year for clean energy in Massachusetts. Clean Water Action, our members and local partners helped lead the charge for three new laws that bring great promise to the development of clean energy in our state: the Global Warming Solutions Act, the Green Communities Act, and the Massachusetts Green Jobs Act.