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Get diesel out of fracking! By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director Clean Water Action works on drinking water because we believe that the nation ought to act like drinking water matters. Polls show people think drinking water matters. But when it comes to our activities like, growing food, building cities and towns, and producing energy, we don’t implement our health and environmental laws or control the impacts of our activities to truly prevent threats to our drinking water. Things would look a lot different if we did. “Fracking” shouldn’t be exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act, but

By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director Another day, another House committee debating whether our regulations that keep our water drinkable, air breathable, and communities healthy are worth it. As early as tomorrow, the powerful House Appropriations Committee will take up consideration of bill that is already full dirty water riders. It's time to tell Congress, "No!" It's getting tiring isn't it? The most anti-environmental Congress uses every chance it gets to go after clean water and clean air programs. This is serious stuff and some Members of Congress are on a mission to challenge

By Erin Adair, Colorado Program Coordinator Gary Wockner on Taking Action on Fracking Clean Water Action, along with Sierra Club, Food and Water Watch and a local citizens group, What the Frack?! Arapahoe County co-sponsored a “Don’t FRACK Our Schools”, a public meeting last week in Aurora, CO We wanted to inform the community about newly leased lands to oil and gas companies and discuss what that means. You can see how close leased lands are to the K-12 community schools in the area here. Neighborhoods in the front range of Colorado are being inundated with drilling and fracking. It’s