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Chesapeake Currents | Spring 2013
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Protecting Maryland's Water
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From the Regional Director
- Victory in Virginia
- Coal Ash in Delaware
- Protecting Water in DC
- Stormwater in Prince George's County
- Other Ways to Get Involved
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Maryland:
Building on Past Victories to Protect Maryland’s Water
Electing Incumbent Champions in Maryland
Clean Water Action is supporting Sen. Ben Cardin and Reps. Chris Van Hollen, Donna Edwards, and Dutch Ruppersberger for re-election. These clean water leaders are outspoken advocates and champions in the fight to defend America’s streams, rivers and bays. Their efforts have been especially important since January 2011, when U.S. House began its extreme anti-environment assaults, with more than three hundred votes to defund, deregulate or eliminate water and health protections. More than thirty-five of those votes sought to dismantle the forty-year-old Clean Water Act.
Chesapeake Currents | Elections 2012
are you a clean water voter?
Chesapeake Currents - Fall 2011
Inside
- We Can't Live Without Clean Water
- Uranium Mining
- Virginia Endorsements
- Winning in Baltimore
- DC - Leading on Stormwater
- Delaware's Senator Takes on Diesel
we can’t live without clean water
It’s that simple. But sometimes, the people we elect seem to forget that. And they’ve been forgetting it a lot lately in Washington, DC and in too many of our state capitals.
From the Director - Chesapeake
we can’t live without clean water
It’s that simple. But sometimes, the people we elect seem to forget that. And they’ve been forgetting it a lot lately in Washington, DC and in too many of our state capitals.
Other Publications
Built By Michigan - April Newsletter
Ann Arbor city council passes EV resolution
By Charles Griffith - Climate & Energy Program Director, Ecology Center
In a great example of a good start, Ann Arbor’s city council approved a plan earlier this month to further prepare the city’s infrastructure to support plug-in electric vehicles. The resolution calls on city staff to review permit and planning processes, as well as zoning codes, to remove barriers to creating plug-in infrastructure. The resolution also requires the city’s administrator to consider adding plug-in vehicles as part of the city’s fleet.
Turning Up the Heat II: Exposing the continued failures of the manufacturers thermostat recycling program
A manufacturer-run program for collecting mercury thermostats is failing to keep the toxic heavy metal out of the trash—and the environment. Turning Up The Heat II estimates that, at most, the industry recycling program has captured 8% of mercury thermostats coming out of service in the past decade. This has resulted in the disposal of over 50 tons of mercury into the environment, which can expose people to the neurotoxin through fish consumption.
Coalition for a Safe and Healthy Connecticut Newsletter | March 2013
Help us continue to make Connecticut Safe and Healthy!
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CSHC leads the way with 3 bills to protect health
HB 6526 Toxics Disclosure and Innovation for Healthy Children. This bill will:
- Require DPH to identify chemicals of concern to children and prioritize 2 every 2 years for action.
- Require manufacturers to disclose the presence of the prioritized chemicals in children’s products.
- Require the development of a plan to shift to safer alternative.
- Assist CT businesses that manufacture children’s products to work with green chemistry experts in CT to shift to a safe alternative.
New Jersey Currents | Spring 2013
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Hands Off New Jersey's Water!
There’s an expression we use a lot in New Jersey: “Jersey Strong”. We are proud of our strength and resilience and our ability to stand up to anything. Superstorms, superbugs, superfund sites — you name it, we (think) we can conquer it.
But New Jerseyans aren’t going to be
“Jersey Strong” much longer if a bill that will weaken New Jersey’s
drinking water quality makes its way through the New Jersey Legislature.
The new legislation (A2123), sponsored by Assemblyman John Burzichelli
(D-Gloucester), proposes to add industry representatives to the Drinking
Water Quality Institute (DWQI). This would allow polluting interests to
decide what level of contaminants end up in New Jersey tap water — as
if the state’s drinking water situation wasn’t already bad enough. Read More