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Governor Scott: Kick Coal Ash Back to the Legislature!
By Angelique Giraud, Energy Community Organizer Right now, Florida’s public health and the safety of our water resources are in jeopardy. Clean Water Action is calling on Governor Rick Scott to veto dangerous legislation that would put our communities at heightened risk for exposure to toxic coal ash. Join us and take action today! Burning coal generates cheap energy, but at what cost to our environment and public health? Entire ecosystems are destroyed to extract, burn, and dispose of coal. Public and environmental health is threatened at every stage of the lifecycle of coal. Blasting
Ken Geiser: Celebrating the Work of A Champion
Ken Geiser (second from right) and Richard Clapp (second from left) receive Lifetime Achievement awards presented by Clean Water Action Massachusetts Director, Elizabeth Saunders, and Joel Tickner, Professor of Work Environment at UMass Lowell. By Elizabeth Saunders, Massachusetts Director This weekend, Clean Water Action honored Ken Geiser, Co-Director of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at UMass Lowell on the occasion of his retirement. Ken was a primary author of the Toxics Use Reduction Act (TURA), which was enacted by the Massachusetts legislature in 1989 and made
Why Did Hickenlooper and Urbina Kill the Fracking Healthcare Bill?
By Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director This originally appeared in Huffington Post. On Thursday evening, April 11 th, Colorado State Rep. Joann Ginal's (D-Fort Collins) House Bill 1275 was heard, and died, in committee in the Colorado State Legislature. Rep Ginal's bill asked and proposed to answer a very honest and simple question, "Are people living near oil and gas drilling and fracking getting sicker than people who don't?" And, the bill would have provided that information to the public in a short timeframe. Our organization, Clean Water Action, organizes door-to-door in the Denver
Senators Urging Against Clean Water Progress: Wrong on All Counts!
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director Let EPA Get the Job Done! Yesterday's letter to the Environmental Protection Agency's Acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe from over two dozen Republican Senators urges EPA to perpetuate the stalemate which is leaving drinking water sources without Clean Water Act protection. We hope this letter has the opposite effect, which is to remind the Administration that we can't face today's clean water challenges with this kind of vulnerability affecting so many of our precious water resources. The science is behind this. Despite this letter's claims, the
What I Did for Earth Day 2013
by Jonathan A. Scott Today, I had the good fortune to visit with Aveda salon and spa owners, managers, stylists and volunteers in Concord, Hooksett, Londonderry, Windham and Milford, New Hampshire. My colleagues on the Clean Water staff and volunteer Clean Water leaders go to make Earth Day additional salons in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Volunteers in each salon had organized “cut-a-thons” to benefit Clean Water Fund as part of a series of similar global Earth Day Aveda events. Besides helping Clean Water Fund and other great clean water causes, hundreds of