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A Germ Free Mississippi? Antibacterial Products and Our Water
By Kim Labo, Minnesota Program Organizer Evidently the Mississippi River is now germ free thanks to thousands of Minnesotans washing antibacterial soaps, toothpaste and cleaners down the drain. At least that is the result you would expect given the level of chemicals in the river from antibacterial products has increased more than 200% since the 1960’s. Instead we have carcinogenic dioxins being formed when antibacterial chemicals like triclosan break down in our water. When exposed to chlorine and sunlight during the wastewater treatment process triclosan turns into several dioxins (DCDD
Michigan Manufacturers Leading the Industry in Meeting New EPA Standards
Chevrolet Volt, released 2010 By Elli Bell, Michigan Energy Program Intern Choosing a new car is always exciting, but sometimes picking a car with all the “right” specs for your lifestyle is a total headache. Often it seems impossible to make the right decision, or even to dig through all the advertising to get to the actual details of your future car. There are all the technical things to consider like horsepower, reliability and repair costs. Then there are the fun things like color, how many gadgets you want, interior paneling, and leather or fabric seats. But perhaps the most important
Welcome to Clean Water Action, Massachusetts!
Everything is interconnected: clean water, good health, a stable climate, a healthy environment, economic well-being, a robust democracy, and justice for all—especially the most vulnerable among us. That’s why Clean Water Action aims to makes these basic rights and values central to all of our work.
DC Statehood
DC residents lack basic citizenship rights. Statehood is the only path to equal rights and full citizenship for residents of the District – it is the "unfinished chapter of the civil rights movement." More than 700,000 DC residents deserve to have a voting representative and two senators in Congress along with all the other citizenship rights every other American enjoys. That is why we support statehood for the District of Columbia and are calling on Congress to make DC the 51st state. DC residents pay the highest federal taxes in the country, yet have no voting representation in either the
Tackling California's PFAS Problem
You may never have heard of PFAS, but they're a class of toxic chemicals that are everywhere. These man-made chemicals have traveled through the environment into the far reaches of the world, and they don’t break down and go away, which is why they're called “forever” chemicals.
