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Clean Water Action's Field Canvass Made a Difference in Midterms
Statewide, the organization's robust field operations brought dozens of professional canvassers into neighborhoods throughout four targeted districts - knocking on more than 220,000 doors across New Jersey and mobilizing tens of thousands of voters to the polls.
Trees can’t vote. Rivers can’t vote. You can.
Our rivers, streams, and wetlands threatened by a repeal of the Clean Water Rule can not vote. Our western forests threatened by more frequent and severe wildfires due to climate change can not vote. Endangered species, like the iconic California Condor, threatened by congressional rollbacks on protections, can not vote.
Why we must face climate change with a positive attitude
The world won’t end if humans keep up with business as usual, but we will face the most catastrophic loss of human and animal life the world has ever seen. We can’t downplay these findings. The real question is how do we talk about this in a way that communicates meaning and mobilization, instead of fear?
Uranium Mining in Virginia: What finally got a national policy wonk to look and then act in her own backyard.
Today we welcome Guest Blogger Lisa Ragain, who runs Aqua Vitae, a water consulting organization. Lisa's message is quite timely, given that the Virginia Senate Agriculture Committee will consider this issue tomorrow, January 31. It’s confession time. I have spent most of my adult life working on drinking water policy. From the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to the EPA Office of Water, I’m in the loop. I am conversant on drought in Texas, legislative hearings in New Jersey and chemical contamination in Illinois. But prior to last year, I could not tell you what was going on with
Let Them Vote!
By Bob Wendelgass, President & CEO You know what I’m sick of? Seeing important bills that would protect our water, fight climate change, and help build a clean energy economy never get a vote in the Senate. I think it’s time to do something about it so our Senators can start representing you and me and voting on the bills we care about. But we need your help today! We need to reform the filibuster and we have one chance to do it right now – so email (and call) your Senators today! Tell them to support Senate Resolution 4 (SR 4), which makes simple and common sense changes to the filibuster to
