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2025 Year in Review: ReThink Disposable in California

December 8, 2025 | By Julie Wedge

It's been another successful year for the ReThink Disposable program, and we want to thank our Board, our members, and our valued supporters for trusting us to do this work.

We wrapped up a four-year contract with StopWaste where we worked together to reduce single-use disposable foodware in Alameda

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Yes to a budget. No to polluters' riders.

March 21, 2013 | By Clean Water Action
By Michael Kelly, Director of Online Communications Finally! After nearly four years without a budget from the Senate, our Senators are working on, and debating, a budget. Of course, it won't be easy. This is the Senate, after all. Watch the debate live in CSPAN, here Polluters and their allies are
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Clean Water for Ed Markey

March 21, 2013 | By Clean Water Action
By Cindy Luppi, New England Regional Director I'm proud to report this week Clean Water Action endorsed Representative Ed Markey in the United States Senate race in Massachusetts. For decades, Rep. Markey has been a consistent and powerful friend to all who value clean air, clean water and healthy
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Protecting Communities in Fracking Country

March 15, 2013 | By Clean Water Action
By Steve Hvozdovich, Marcellus Campaign Coordinator

For those in the heart of gas country, impacts from natural gas drilling to water and air quality are a daily concern and a threat to their quality of life. The bills introduced in the U.S. Congress today by Representatives Matthew Cartwright (D-PA

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Powerful Women: Lori Ehrlich

March 15, 2013 | By Clean Water Action
By Joel Wool, Clean Energy Organizer MA Residents: Stand with Lori, call for clean power and healthy communities If your children left soot where they walked, left coal-black footprints in the kitchen, would you have the courage to ask what was in their air and water? Would you stand up to terrible
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Powerful Women: Pauline Rodrigues

March 14, 2013 | By Clean Water Action
By Joel Wool, Clean Energy Campaign Organizer "The end of coal-burning is near: we need to think about what comes next." Join Pauline in asking Massachusetts to Plan for Transition Five hundred feet from the old Montaup plant in Somerset, minutes from where her husband grew up, Pauline had no idea
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Conserving Water at Home

March 13, 2013 | By David Foster
Water Conservation in Austin

Is this ‘drought’ or is it…Texas? This is the question that imposes itself, as the drought wears on and as experts warn us to brace for a warmer climate. Drought has become our new norm, and water levels in reservoirs across the state continue to drop. We all need to do

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