Stop Trash Before it Starts: ReThink Disposable’s Growing Impact
Let this sink in! The world produces hundreds of millions of tons of plastic every year, with up to half created for single-use purposes. These are items designed to be used for only minutes before becoming waste. That’s the equivalent of hundreds of Empire State Buildings’ worth of plastic entering our environment each year.
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Putting Drinking Water First: Protect ALL of our Water
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director Check Out the Map I wonder how long we are going to have to find new ways of saying “all means all” and of proving that protecting our drinking water is a no-brainer. Clean Water Action has worked tirelessly for over ten years to close gaps in Clean Water
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Finally Moving Foward on Coal Ash?
By Michael Kelly, Communications Director A 2011 Coal Ash Spill on Lake Michigan Coal ash is nasty. It’s toxic. It contains mercury and arsenic and lead (just to name a few). It’s polluting our water and has destroyed communities. We produce a lot of it – 140 million tons a year. Yet, there are no
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The Power Grab That Isn't
By Michael Kelly, Communications Director EPA - protecting our water The following statements are dead wrong 1. “This could be the EPA’s most dramatic power grab ever…” – Steve Doocy, Fox News 2. “The EPA is redefining the meaning of the word water so as to give it, the EPA the ability to regulate
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Think Before You Pink. Clean Water Action on Breast Cancer Awareness
By Madeleine Doggett, Massachusetts Intern One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the U.S. in her lifetime—that is 250,000 women each year. Every year 40,000 women die from breast cancer in the U.S. Breast cancer is an epidemic and the disease needs to be stopped before it starts
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It's time - End the Shutdown and Pay our Debts
By Michael Kelly, Communications Director Fifteen days and counting. Unless Republicans in the House are determined to break the record for longest shutdown in history (21 days in 1994) then it's time to get something done. Because, beyond the impacts of having the "cops" off the the beat - the
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Colorado Rivers Illustrate Realities of Extreme Weather Activated by Climate Change
By Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director This was originally published at EcoWatch The river raced. I was standing near the bridge on College Avenue over the Cache la Poudre River in Fort Collins, CO. Due to the torrential rainstorms, the river had peaked about six hours earlier in the middle of
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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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