Protecting Pennsylvania's Water from Oil and Gas Development

Clean Water Action is working to protect our drinking water from the variety of threats natural gas drilling poses. Clean Water Action has held treatment facilities accepting natural gas wastewater accountable, fought to improve the way state agencies handle water contamination complaints, and worked to expose the number of confirmed water contamination cases.

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Climate Change and Clean Energy, Oil and Gas

No Tax Breaks for Petrochemical Plants

If we’re serious about addressing climate change then we should be incentivizing renewable energy, not oil and gas.

Email your legislators and Governor Wolf today and urge them to chart a different path for Pennsylvania, starting with supporting a veto of HB 1100.
Pennsylvania Currents

Pennsylvania Currents - Spring | Summer 2017

In this issue: Pennsylvania Action on Methane Pollution; Legislators Seek to Stop Efforts to Clean Up Plastic Bags; Communities at Risk from Lead in Drinking Water; and more.

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Pennsylvania Currents -- June 2019

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Pennsylvania Currents - Spring-Summer 2016

Pennsylvania Currents - Spring | Summer 2016

In this issue: Cutting the gas industry's climate impact; Methane pollution; Lead in our water; Extreme energy production film festival; Fighting for better air and winning; Heavy Seas supports Clean Water; and more.

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From We All Live Downstream

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We Need Elected Officials Who Support the Environment and Blue Collar Jobs
Pennsylvania
March 16, 2020

Pennsylvanians are grappling with the fallout from the recently passed House Bill 1100 which provides tax incentives for the build out of the petrochemical industry.

One perspective that emerged in southwest Pennsylvania is that we shouldn’t back elected officials that don’t support policies that create blue collar prevailing wage jobs that will uplift Pennsylvanians. This perspective only gets it partially right.

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A win for clean water in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
November 10, 2017

We didn’t have the Governor on our side. We definitely didn’t have the support of the Republican legislative leaders. And we were up against some of the biggest oil and gas companies in the world. And guess what? We WON!

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Pennsylvania Capitol, photo: Clean Water Action
203 oil and gas lobbyists (in Pennsylvania alone!)
Pennsylvania
June 9, 2017

It’s clear that President Trump won’t be acting on climate or clean water – in fact everything he’s done has taken us backward. But here in Pennsylvania, we can make a difference.

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