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Putting Drinking Water First - A Real Win

March 28, 2014 | By Clean Water Action

By Lynn Thorp, Campaigns Director (follow Lynn of Twitter - @LTCWA) Waiting for Protection for More than 10 years

Putting Drinking Water First means making decisions about all of our activities with an eye toward their impact on our drinking water sources. Take action here. Why should we do that

Air Pollution from Coke Plant in Pittsburgh Cannot Continue

March 27, 2014 | By Clean Water Action

Courtesy of Joel Polacci

By Julie St. John, Pittsburgh Organizer For years, Clean Water Action in Pittsburgh has been working to clean up air pollution coming from the Shenango coke works on Neville Island. The facility is located on a heavily industrialized piece of land less than one mile from

Clean Water? We’re in it for the Long Haul

Posted on March 26, 2014

by Jonathan A. Scott, editor, Clean Water Currents (on Twitter @jscottnh) Watch EPA Administrator McCarthy's March 25 call to #ProtectCleanWater

Since 2002, Clean Water Action has doggedly fought an uphill battle to restore Clean Water Act protections for some of America’s most important water

It's About Time

March 25, 2014 | By Clean Water Action

By Bob Wendelgass, President and CEO (Follow Bob on Twitter - @BWendelgass) #ProtectCleanWater today! Click here to submit a comment.

Thanks to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) for finally announcing critical steps to fix a mess the Bush Administration

Gubernatorial Candidates pledge environmental protections

March 24, 2014 | By Clean Water Action

Elizabeth Saunders, Clean Water Action Massachusetts Director, introduces Gubernatorial candidates Joe Avellone, Don Berwick, Attorney General Martha Coakley, Treasurer Steve Grossman, and Juliette Kayyem

On Friday, March 21 st , Clean Water Action joined a coalition of 30 organizations in co

Bye Bye Plastics

March 21, 2014 | By Clean Water Action

San Francisco Supervisor Chiu holds up a plastic water bottled filled with the amount of oil it takes to make just one bottle!

By Samantha Meyer, Zero Waste Program Manager - Follow the campaign on Twitter: @Rdisposable It’s already been a big month for cracking down on plastic pollution in