Taking On PFAS and Polluters - National Teflon Day 2025
Did you know that April 6th is National Teflon Day? That’s right, it’s a day to celebrate a product that is severely toxic to humans and has helped contaminate the planet! But the industry wants you to think that is a good thing. In California, Clean Water Action is celebrating National Teflon Day a different way.
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The Dirty Water Caucus at it Again
Who are they protecting?
By Jennifer Peters, National Water Coordinator On Wednesday the House Appropriations Committee passed an amendment to a spending bill that would block the Administration from finishing new Clean Water Act polices to protect streams, lakes, wetlands and other water resourcesBuy More Stuff for Earth Day? Buy local, organic, and fair-trade certified if you're going to buy, but consider not buying anything at all, too.
What are you doing to celebrate Earth Month?
By Jonathan A. Scott, Communications Director Everyone wants to be able to “do something” for Earth Day. For anyone who’s too young (or too old) to remember, this is the annual celebration whose first incarnation, April 22, 1970 helped to galvanize andThe Choice Couldn't Be Clearer
By Bob Wendelgass, President and CEO
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We must Re-elect Barack Obama in 2012
In my 20 years of working with Clean Water Action, I have never seen a Presidential race in which the choice was so stark. That’s why earlier this week, Clean Water Action joined with Sierra Club, the League of ConservationClean Water is Good for Business, and for Beer!
This 2012 guest blog post was written by Jenn Vervier, special to We All Live Downstream. At the time Jenn worked as Director of Strategic Development for New Belgium Brewing. This first appeared in The Huffington Post.
At New Belgium Brewing, we not only make Fat Tire Amber Ale and about 15 other
Colorado’s “Big Oil” Congressmen Make Us Pay Twice for Gasoline
Fat Cat takes photos with drivers calling an end to taxpayer handouts to Big Oil By Staff From Aurora to Pueblo – the heart of swing-voting Colorado – environmental groups are calling out U.S. Representatives Mike Coffman and Scott Tipton for making people pay twice for gasoline. On tax day, 2012
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On Coal Ash Waste and A Dedication to Polluters
By Jennifer Peters, National Water Coordinator
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"Look what they've loaded it up," LaHood continued. "Keystone; Coal ash. None of it has anything to do with transportation." - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood
Coal ash is nasty. It's what's left over when we burn coal to produce electricity and it's
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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