Lynn Thorp

Campaigns Director

Lynn oversees the organization’s national work on water, global warming and energy and chemical policy. She is particularly involved in drinking water issues, and has served two terms of the National Drinking Water Advisory Committee which advises the US Environmental Protection Agency on drinking water policy. Lynn has also served on a number of other Federal Advisory Committees and other bodies working on drinking water regulation.

Before coming to Clean Water in 1999, Lynn worked at Greenpeace for 9 years with an emphasis on toxics and health issues. She began work in the advocacy community 25 years ago after completing undergraduate and graduate work in American History at Georgetown University. Lynn is a DC native.

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Letter to EPA: National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper Rule Improvements

Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund emphasize the need to fully replace all lead service lines, service line inventories, and lowering the Action Level for lead in water sampling.

Clean Water Action/Clean Water Fund Comments on EPA Proposed Drinking Water Regulations for PFAS Chemicals, May 2023

Read public comment submitted by Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund to EPA in response to the first ever proposed national standards for regulating PFAS chemicals in drinking water.

Letter to Congress: Support The Environmental Justice For All Act

The Environmental Justice for All Act (H.R. 2021), introduced by Representative Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) and Representative Donald McEachin, (D-VA) is a long overdue package of reforms that will help address the history of environmental injustice that has led to undue burdens of pollution on people of color and low-income communities. Clean Water Action has submitted the following letter to the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee in support of this legislation.