Climate Change and Clean Energy

We are in a climate emergency, causing disruptive and unpredictable effects on both our drinking water sources and communities. From increased frequency and intensity of rain, floods, and sewer overflows to droughts, water scarcity and increased fire risk - climate change is water change. We can and must take action to create a clean energy future.

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Using the Power of the Election Season to Stop NJ Warehouses

Clean Water Action's virtual training: "Use the Power of the Election Season to Fight NJ Warehouses” presented by Zero Emissions & Warehouse Organizer, Tolani Taylor, Thursday, September 28,2023

2023 Public Power Project Convening | Conference Video

On September 11th and 12th 2023, a virtual convening was held by The Public Power Project Steering Committee following the release of a new report, Coming Together for Equitable Public Power.

Clean Water Currents | Fall 2023

In This Issue: Congress Should Protect People, Not Polluters! | Devastating Sackett v. EPA Supreme Court Decision Puts All Water At Risk | Lead In Drinking Water - Putting Lead Service Lines Behind Us | PFAS Chemicals - Taking the Burden Off Communities and Our Health | EPA Proposes to Expand Regulation of Toxic Coal Ash | State and Regional News

Coming Together For Equitable Public Power

A number of communities are taking action to explore what it would take to break from investor-owned utilities who are failing to meet community reliability, sustainability, and affordability expectations and instead form a new public power utilities. Over two years and across multiple states, the Public Power Project collaboration explored the perspective of campaigners, public officials, staff of existing municipal power utilities, and communities already served by public power. Through landscape analysis, interviews, and focus groups this report shares insights gained about how public power, in its incumbent and emergent forms, can be equitable, just, and democratic.
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