The 2026 RI Legislative Session Ended, but the Work Continues!
Rhode Island legislative sessions are short and packed. This session ended with Clean Water Action fending off a last-minute attack on the state law restricting toxic PFAS, but many priority bills remained in limbo as the legislators broke for the summer. Here’s a breakdown of what happened!
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California's Scary Oil and Gas Industry
By Andrew Grinberg, Oil and Gas Program Coordinator Take Action Today! What could be scarier than ghosts, skeletons and witches? How about contaminated drinking water and runaway climate change? The oil industry is one of the spookiest things we've ever encountered. They disguise themselves as the
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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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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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