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New Rule = Healthier Drinking Water

December 21, 2012 | By Clean Water Action
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director Yesterday's announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that it has finalized revision of the "Total Coliform Rule" is probably not going to grab a lot of headlines. But, it is significant in a number of ways. First, this revised rule
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California: The Next Frack Frontier?

December 21, 2012 | By Clean Water Action
By Andrew Grinberg, California Program Associate As the fracking fight comes to California, our state government is finally getting on the bandwagon and will begin to regulate the dangerous oil and gas extraction process. The Department of Conservation (DOC) issued the first draft of proposed
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Don't Bargain Water for Power

December 17, 2012 | By Clean Water Action
Fracking operations near a home in Armstrong County, PA

By Guest Writer, Marion Stoddart In a December 2 commentary in the Boston Globe, columnist Tom Keane wrote that "The key to American energy independence is ‘drill, baby, drill’ -- or perhaps more correctly, 'frack, baby, frack.'" Fracking
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Don't Frack Denver's Water

December 13, 2012 | By Clean Water Action
By Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director What has separated the fracking wars in the Eastern U.S. from the Western U.S. is that New York City'sand Pittsburgh's watershed -- the place where these cities get their drinking water -- is proposed to be fracked. As you can expect, when millions of
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Ranking Retailers

December 12, 2012 | By Clean Water Action
By Cindy Luppi, New England Regional Director This post originally appeared on the Safe Chemicals Healthy Families Blog It’s December 11 th - just a few weeks before the holidays and three weeks until New Years Eve. If you’re like me, you’re a little bleary-eyed running around to finish up end-of
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