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WV Water Unsafe Due to Coal De-Foaming Chemical: How Does Something Like This Happen?

By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director (Follow Lynn on Twitter - @LTCWA) The chemical spill in West Virginia, which has resulted in undrinkable and unusable tap water for hundreds of thousands of people, definitely falls into the category of Things We Are Not Doing to Put Drinking Water First. As readers of this blog know, we are committed to identifying activities which put our drinking water at risk and to solving those problems before they get into the treatment plant or in fact into your kitchen sink. Here are some of the questions we have today: Why allow a storage tank containing

Marchers Demand Clean Air and Fair Development

By Will Fadely, Baltimore Organizer The march to the incinerator Energy Answers a dirty Waste-to-Energy Incinerator is being constructed less than 1 Mile from Schools, Parks, Playgrounds, Homes, and Water Bodies of the community of Curtis Bay. Waste-to-Energy (WTE) may sound “green”, but residents of Curtis Bay know that this is nothing but a euphemism for a trash burning incinerator with all its toxic pollution and health hazards. Energy Answers plans to build a new incinerator in Baltimore which leads the nation in air pollution related deaths per capita. A recent report found that, “WTE

NJ Legislative Scorecard 2017

Clean Water Action presents the NJ Legislative Scorecard 2017. The scorecard represents a permanent record that scores every NJ state legislator on votes, action and leadership on significant environmental bills in August 2015 - August 2017. Tell legislators what you think about their scores. 2017 Scorecard Reveals Most Legislators Still Not Making the Grade The New Jersey Legislature tried but failed to counter Governor Christie on the environment. They now must work with the new Governor to undo Christie's wrongdoing and counter Donald Trump. New Jersey has not been at a more critical
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