Oil and Gas

Clean Water is working to protect people and communities from oil and gas production's harmful environmental and health impacts while pushing for the transition to a clean energy economy.

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Pennsylvania

Don’t Take Oil and Gas Protections Back to the 80’s

Take Action! Email your state senator today and tell them to oppose SB 790.

Take Action! Email your state senator today and tell them to oppose SB 790.

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New Jersey

Make New Jersey a Leader on Renewable Energy

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) is accepting public feedback on the draft plan until September 16th. Write a letter to the BPU to let them know what a clean energy future looks like to you!

Make New Jersey a Leader on Renewable Energy
National

Get Money Out of Politics Today!

The oil and gas industry, aided by the erosion of campaign finance laws and nearly boundless lobbying budgets, asserts enormous influence over legislative processes in real time while also enjoying legacy influence in regulatory frame- works. The results can be devastating to the health of the environment and the public.

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Oil and Gas Blog Posts

Swampy and Bernhardt
#StopBernhardt!
April 3, 2019

Last week we organized to oppose President Trump’s nominee to serve as Secretary of Interior. David Bernhardt, a former oil and gas lobbyist and lawyer with extensive conflicts of interest, has used his position at DOI to harm America’s public lands, waters and wildlife and gut some of the nation’s landmark conservation victories at the behest of corporate special interests.

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Belridge oil field. Credit Sarah Craig
The Dirty Water Rule would mean more oil and gas wastewater in rivers and streams.
March 28, 2019

New analysis finds big impacts in oil producing states

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Pumpjack at the Lost Hills Oil Field
Pursuing Environmental Justice In Kern County
February 19, 2019

My name is Jesus Alonso, and I am the Kern Environmental Justice Community Organizer for Clean Water Action. I was born and raised in Lamont, a small, low-income, Spanish-speaking migrant community in Kern County. I am passionate about our work in Kern, not only because it is where I grew up but because the hard-working people of Kern face some of the worst environment-related health impacts and poorest air quality in our state. Multiple nearby pollution sources, including agriculture and oil and gas infrastructure, continually fill our air with contaminants. 

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