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Bringing Green Justice Home to Our Communities

July 29, 2013 | By Clean Water Action
In Massachusetts, Clean Water Action's canvass is rolling out a new energy program we helped create. Using targeted outreach and improved financial incentives, this program will expand home weatherization to families who have previously faced barriers to making their homes more efficient. Building a
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Our Water is not Their Sewer!

July 26, 2013 | By Clean Water Action
By Bob Wendelgass, President & CEO I’ve worked in advocacy and politics for a long time and have fought to protect our health and environment from dirty, polluting industries and I thought I had seen it all. But even I was blown away when I saw the extent of the toxic pollution that power plants
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No Excuse for Water Pollution

Posted on July 23, 2013
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director I have worked on water issues for a long time, so I don’t expect surprises about pollution sources. But that’s what I got when we began to see the facts on water pollution from our nation’s power plants, especially coal plants. It turns out that power
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Can We #ProtectCleanWater?

July 17, 2013 | By Clean Water Action
By Angelique Giraud, Florida Energy Community Organizer Advocates from all over the nation gathered together July 10th in Washington, DC to speak out in support of clean water. For the first time in over 30 years, we have the chance to make power plants, particularly coal-fired plants, clean up
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From Missouri to DC to #ProtectCleanWater

July 9, 2013 | By Clean Water Action
Patricia Shuba Speaking at the Power Plant Water Pollution Press Event

By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director This morning I met Patricia Schuba from the Labadie Environmental Organization in Missouri. Patricia came to Washington, DC today not to see the monuments and museums but to make sure
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