Why is Baltimore City burning our yard waste?
On Wednesday, June 26, the Baltimore City Council's Health, Environment, and Transportation Committee is holding a hearing on Council Bill 23-0466: Recyclable Materials and Yard Waste . Unlike every other County in Maryland, Baltimore City has no centralized yard waste composting program - only
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Air Pollution from Coke Plant in Pittsburgh Cannot Continue
Courtesy of Joel Polacci By Julie St. John, Pittsburgh Organizer For years, Clean Water Action in Pittsburgh has been working to clean up air pollution coming from the Shenango coke works on Neville Island. The facility is located on a heavily industrialized piece of land less than one mile from
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Clean Water? We’re in it for the Long Haul
by Jonathan A. Scott, editor, Clean Water Currents (on Twitter @jscottnh) Watch EPA Administrator McCarthy's March 25 call to #ProtectCleanWater Since 2002, Clean Water Action has doggedly fought an uphill battle to restore Clean Water Act protections for some of America’s most important water
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It's About Time
By Bob Wendelgass, President and CEO (Follow Bob on Twitter - @BWendelgass) #ProtectCleanWater today! Click here to submit a comment. Thanks to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) for finally announcing critical steps to fix a mess the Bush Administration
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Gubernatorial Candidates pledge environmental protections
Elizabeth Saunders, Clean Water Action Massachusetts Director, introduces Gubernatorial candidates Joe Avellone, Don Berwick, Attorney General Martha Coakley, Treasurer Steve Grossman, and Juliette Kayyem
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On Friday, March 21 st , Clean Water Action joined a coalition of 30 organizations in co
Bye Bye Plastics
San Francisco Supervisor Chiu holds up a plastic water bottled filled with the amount of oil it takes to make just one bottle! By Samantha Meyer, Zero Waste Program Manager - Follow the campaign on Twitter: @Rdisposable It’s already been a big month for cracking down on plastic pollution in
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Op-ed: CT bill could help keep our children safe from toxins
By Joyce Acebo-Raguskus, Clean Water Action Member and activist with the Coalition for a Safe and Healthy Connecticut "America's children are at risk of becoming the first generation in a century to live shorter, less healthy lives than their parents." – Dr. Philip Landrigan, Mt. Sinai Children’s
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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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