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Lobbying in PFAS: Big Money is Poisoning our Water

April 3, 2026 | By Avonna Starck
Legislators answer to the people of Minnesota who expect safe drinking water, who don’t want toxic chemicals in children’s products, and who are tired of paying for corporate pollution. There are real issues demanding attention—corporate welfare disguised as regulatory “relief” should not be on the agenda.
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Will Fracking Destroy Colorado's Rivers?

March 19, 2012 | By Clean Water Action
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)

March 16, 2012 | By Clean Water Action
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

March 14, 2012 | By Clean Water Action
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

March 13, 2012 | By Clean Water Action
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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Booster-ism +

February 28, 2012 | By Clean Water Action
By Michael Kelly, Director of Online Communications Fracking in Weld County We’re used to a little booster-ism from our elected officials for the industries and causes they support (see all the wild and varying claims about the hundreds of thousands of jobs that could be created by the XL Pipeline)
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