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39 Years of Protecting Our Waters
Let's get it "over the hill"39 - will it get to 40?
By Lynn Thorp, National Programs Coordinator Today is the 39 th anniversary of the landmark Clean Water Act. Since Clean Water Action was founded as the idea became law, it’s a meaningful date for us. The idea then was that the long struggle to point to our nation’s water problems and win a national solution was not over when President Nixon signed the bill into law. In fact, the struggle was just beginning. With a goal like “zero discharge of pollution” into our nation’s water by the middle 1980’s, we knew it would not be easy! The CleanYou know what doesn't stimulate the economy: Mercury and Lead Pollution
Power Plant Emissions
By Cord Briggs, National Programs Intern Since taking control of the House, Republican leadership has been hard at work dismantling our clean water and air protections. To date they have passed a whopping 160 anti-environmental bills, and that number is only continuing to sky-rocket. They have effectively made the 112 th Congress the most anti-environment Congress in history. Last week, House Leadership pushed through a bill that would slash long-overdue air pollution standards for cement plants. These plants are the second largest source of mercury pollution in the US