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Storm Water Success!

By Andy Fellows, Chesapeake Regional Director

Protecting the Bay

On Friday afternoon, the Maryland House of Delegates passed House Bill (HB) 987 on a 90-48 vote. This is a great step forward for the campaign to reduce pollution from storm water – the runoff from urban and suburban streets and
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The Kids are Alright

"Keep Our Water Safe"

By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director While the letters our members write to President Obama encouraging him to keep clean water progress moving are great, the pictures their children draw are even better. Water issues are big and complex, and World Water Day is a good
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Will Fracking Destroy Colorado's Rivers?

The Colorado River

By Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director Originally posted at Huffington Post Oil and gas drilling and fracking pose extraordinary threats to Colorado's Denver metro and Front Range cities including to air quality, water quality in streams and groundwater, wildlife habitat
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Get the Lead Out (of Lipstick)

By Mia Davis

Get the Lead Out

Originally published at Crazy, Sexy, Life

Dear Cosmetics Industry: Please stop defending lead and other nasty chemicals in your products. Love, Mia

A $25 tube of department store lipstick should be safe, right? You might assume it is safer than $2 drugstore brand. Not
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Going After the Chesapeake

By Andy Fellows, Chesapeake Regional Director

Rep Goodlatte is putting this at risk

On March 8, 2012, Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-VA6) introduced H.R. 4153, a disastrous proposal misnamed the “Chesapeake Bay Program Reauthorization and Improvement Act.” Rep Goodlatte's bill would not only remove
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The Ag Connection

By Jennifer Clary, California Policy Associate A report released today by the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California Davis sheds provides the broadest look to date about the sources and solutions of nitrate contamination of groundwater in some of the most heavily farmed areas
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