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Going Solar This Summer
Clean Water Action's California Director, Miriam Gordon, and her husband with their new rooftop solar system. Up on the Roof -- Solar Style Last year, when Clean Water Action partnered with Sungevity to begin offering rooftop solar systems to Clean Water Action members, Clean Water Action's California Director, Miriam Gordon, who lives in Northern California, was among the first to apply. “I’d always assumed solar was not an option for our family, since we live in a foggy neighborhood,” Miriam says. “But as soon as our new system was installed we saw the meter running backwards — visible
What a Difference the Right President Makes
By Bob Wendelgass, President and CEO Today, the Obama Administration announced it is finalizing a new rule that will require automakers to increase the average fuel efficiency of cards and light trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. By 2025, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that these new standards will cut greenhouse gas emissions by cars and light trucks in half and reduce U.S. oil consumption by 12 billion barrels of oil. More important to consumers, EPA estimates the changes will save consumers $1.7 trillion dollars in fuel costs and result in an average fuel
Safe Drinking Water and Fracking
Take Action Today! By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director EnergyWire reports this week that at least 138 wells were “fracked” with diesel fuel in the last 18 months. That’s over 100 times that underground sources of drinking water were threatened by some particularly nasty chemicals. And that’s over 100 times that permits should have been issued under the Safe Drinking Water Act’s Underground Injection Control Program. That’s why we’re pushing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take the strongest steps possible to put the Safe Drinking Water Act to work in the only instances