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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