A Safe and Healthy Rhode Island

Clean Water is working to reduce and eliminate toxic chemical exposures in our everyday lives- in buildings, schools, and workplaces, air, water and food, and in consumer products.

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Be a Clean Water Voter in RI!

We win campaigns when our grassroots members reach out to their elected officials, but also when our grassroots members turn out to VOTE. For more info on voting in Rhode Island this year, check out our blog. Each election cycle, Clean Water Action endorses candidates at the state and federal level

Keep Toxic PFAS Out of Food Packaging

Learn more about PFAS, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, a class of chemicals that are commonly used and highly dangerous.

Rhode Island Trash Trawl - Solving the Problem of Microplastics

It could be argued that plastic is the most invasive “species” in our oceans. Up until recently, our perception of plastic pollution in our waters has been limited to the garbage patches swirling in the middle of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

But the most extensive plastic problem we now face is