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Clean Water on the Move | May 2026

May 18, 2026 | By Clean Water Action New Jersey
Welcome to Clean Water on the Move, your monthly update from Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund in New Jersey. While every day is Earth Day to us at Clean Water Action, we had a great Earth Month. Hope you found events and activities to engage in during this special time of the year when we honor Planet Earth - a place we call home. Check out our latest updates from New Jersey!
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Let's Take Our Democracy Back

For the sake of our water, help fix it, now.

January 30, 2019 | By Bob Wendelgass
Why do so many Members of Congress stand by – or, even worse, pile on – whenever the Trump Administration advances another one of its reckless anti-environment giveaways to big polluters? Maybe it’s because things have been systematically rigged to boost the influence wielded by big polluters and
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Lame Duck Heroes and Zeros

January 28, 2019 | By Sean McBrearty
Lame Duck Heroes and Zeros The end of 2018 was record-breaking. After passing 351 bills over the course of the first 22 months of Michigan’s 99 th legislative session, lawmakers passed a whopping 408 bills in a frenzied four-week long lame duck session. This was the busiest and the most
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Michigan Capitol building / photo: Denny Green, Clean Water
a dog in a river / photo: flickr.com/isthmene CC

Want to help make real change in 2019?

January 22, 2019 | By Jon Scott
Start by Taking Charge of Your Change – a new way you can support the fight to Protect Clean Water. We’ve all had this experience. You make it to the end of the check-out line. Then, in front of everybody, the cashier looks you in the eye and says “Will you be adding a donation today for [ name that
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Making Our Democracy Work Again

January 21, 2019 | By Brent Bolin
At Clean Water Action we believe deeply in harnessing people power to make effective change. Our grassroots organizers are in the field year round connecting people to issues that impact their environment, their health, and their communities. When elected officials hear from the people they
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Capitol Building - Washington DC

No More Cash for Burning Trash

January 18, 2019 | By Emily Ranson
Burning trash is not clean energy. When incinerators burn trash, they emit more greenhouse gasses per unit of energy generated than even coal, the dirtiest of fossil fuels. Unfortunately, Maryland currently subsidizes trash incinerators in our state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) - giving
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