Beware of Black Plastic: Share leftover stuffing, NOT leftover toxics!
Are you serving mashed potatoes with a side of toxic flame retardants? If you have Black Plastic kitchen utensils or food containers, the answer is probably YES. How did this happen and what can we all do about it? Let us explain.
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EPA Smog Rule is Good for Well, Pretty Much Everyone
By John Noël, National Oil and Gas Program Coordinator - Follow John on Twitter (@Noel_Johnny) On Thursday I testified at the EPA smog pollution hearing on what seemed like a no-brainer proposal. EPA plans to strengthen its smog standards to reflect the most recent science on the devastating impacts
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Why Do We Fight About Clean Water?
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director - Follow Lynn on Twitter (@LTCWA) Today we launch a wide array of activity leading up to an unusual “bicameral” hearing on Capitol Hill next week. “Bicameral” means that it is a joint hearing put on by the majority leadership of committees in both the U.S
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Protecting Our Drinking Water - Is It Too Much to Ask?
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director - Follow Lynn on Twitter (@LTCWA) The U.S. Senate will vote on amendments to the Keystone pipeline bill and two of them are directly related to drinking water protection. Clean Water Action is urging Senators to vote “Yes” on the Gillibrand and Cardin
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A Year That Confirmed We Need to Put Drinking Water First
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director - Follow Lynn on Twitter (@LTCWA) One year ago today we learned that a chemical spill into the Elk River in West Virginia had led to a “Do Not Use” order. Hundreds of thousands of people in the Charleston area could not use their tap water for anything
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Drinking Water Sacrificed for Oil and Gas Industry Profits - What We Don’t Know CAN Hurt Us
By John Noel, National Oil and Gas Program Coordinator - Follow John on Twitter (@Noel_Johnny) Sacrificing Our Drinking Water for Oil and Gas This week Clean Water Action released a first-ever analysis of the little known Aquifer Exemption program within EPA’s Underground Injection Control program
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Oil and Gas and the Safe Drinking Water Act
By Lynn Thorp, National Programs Director - Follow Lynn on Twitter (@LTCWA) The Infographic - download and share While it is widely recognized that Congress exempted hydraulic fracturing from the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) in the 2005 Energy Policy Act, it is less understood that SDWA still
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We All Live Downstream - Clean Water Action Podcast
Welcome to We All Live Downstream: a Clean Water Action Podcast available on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
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