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The California Budget: Big Wins for Water

June 26, 2015 | By Clean Water Action

By Andrew Grinberg, California Oil and Gas Manager - Follow Andrew on Twitter (@AndrewBGrinberg) Photo: Andrew Grinberg Last week, the Legislature and Governor Brown agreed to a new California budget. How our state will spend $115 billion in 2015-16 is a big deal. It has major implications for our

Stick That in Your Pipeline and Smoke It!

June 25, 2015 | By Denny Green

Anybody who’s ever visited Michigan’s Great Lakes has been taken aback by their inspiring splendor and breath-taking beauty, laid out for all to see. What you don’t see, however, are Enbridge’s two aging pipelines, known as Line 5, that run under the Straits of Mackinac, the waterway that joins Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. And these old pipelines are not only hidden beneath this splendor and beauty, but they actually threaten to destroy it.

Imagining Green Infrastructure in the West End

June 19, 2015 | By Clean Water Action

By GI Jos: Brandon Wang ’16, Kai Salem ’18, Andrew Vann ’17, Grace Molino ’18, Jessie O’Dell ’16 Originally posted at SwearerSparks We’re the GI Jos, one of three student teams in this year’s Teaching Research and Impact Lab (TRI-Lab) on Climate Resilience in the West End. TRI-Lab is a community

#MakeExxonPay More Day of Action

June 15, 2015 | By Alessandro Ciari

By Alessandro Ciari, former community organizer with Clean Water Action and student, Montclair State University "Ditch this dirty deal! Ditch this dirty deal!" chanted activists at a Day of Action at the Statehouse in Trenton yesterday. Environmental activists joined hundreds of concerned residents

What’s Controversial? Absolutely Nothing (about the Clean Water Rule)

Posted on June 12, 2015

by Jonathan A. Scott, Director of Corporate Relations, on Twitter, @jscottnh There's no real controversy here... Capping more than a decade of campaigning by Clean Water Action and allies, the Obama Administration released its final Clean Water Rule on May 27. Although the protracted battle has

Fighting Cancer with Fire Fighters

June 12, 2015 | By Clean Water Action

By Elizabeth Saunders, Massachusetts State Director – Follow Our MA Team on Twitter (@CleanH2OMA) Elizabeth Saunders speaks at the 41st Biennial Convention of the Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts. I have a vivid memory of being on a long bus-ride during an 8th grade school trip and