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Tweet-a-thon to #ProtectCleanWater
#ProtectCleanWater By Jennifer Peters, National Water Coordinator Need clean water? I know you do. All living beings need clean water to survive, yet the protection of clean water has become increasingly politicized over the past decade. It saddens me to write this, but if the original Clean Water Act, which was passed overwhelmingly by a bipartisan Congress in 1972, were to be voted on today in the House of Representatives, it would undoubtedly fail. So far this Congress the House of Representatives has voted a whopping 30 times to weaken federal protections for clean water. The House is not
Drinking Water Matters Part 2 – What Would it Look Like?
Here's the Secret - Drinking Water Matters By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director Yesterday I wrote about the “Trickle Down Problem,” which allows pollution caused by our industrial and other activities to perpetuate until it trickles down to our drinking water sources. We’re left to solve the problem with treatment and higher costs to consumers. What would it look like to act as if drinking water matters? As noted in Part 1, we would not exempt hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas (or other activities) from the Safe Drinking Water Act. We’d also apply a great deal more foresight to our
Drinking Water Matters - Solving the Trickle Down Problem
Help Us Protect Drinking Water By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director It's Drinking Water Week – a good time to think about the big picture when it comes to drinking water challenges. One part of the picture that can’t get enough attention is what I call the “Trickle Down” problem. If you’re like most people in the United States, you think drinking water is pretty important. Maybe you know something about your Public Water System or about the chemical and engineering miracle that is performed every minute by modern drinking water treatment plants. You might even know there is a law called
Safe Chemicals, please
Take Action for Safe Chemicals Today! By Cindy Luppi, New England Director May is here and for many, the top thing on our minds is spring and whether the Celtics can continue their tear in playoffs (Rondo!) or if the Sox will ever turn it around in the Valentine years (and, if you’re not from New England, feel free to insert your own sports teams/metaphors here). For me, Spring always reminds me of my grandmother, Aubine. She was born in early April, over 100 years ago in a small town in northern Maine. She taught my sisters and me many things over the years, but the single over-riding lesson
A Step in the Right Direction on Hydraulic Fracturing and Drinking Water
Let's keep diesel out of fracking! By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director As experts on the Safe Drinking Water Act, we weren’t at all thrilled when Congress exempted hydraulic fracturing from the law back in 2005. EPA's draft policy around fracking operations that use diesel addresses the only "exemption in that exemption" and because of that is very important. We’ve seen since then that drinking water impacts are one of the biggest areas of concern with this type of oil and gas drilling and the exemption needs to be reversed. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) exempts hydraulic