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How to Make an Impact for Clean Water
If you feel like you’re getting body-slammed by all the requests coming in through your phone or computer, you’re not alone. Here’s why: almost one-third of total giving happens in the month of December. The causes you care about most, and many others, don’t want to be left out. You may not be able to donate to every worthy nonprofit that asks, but here are some tips on why we hope Clean Water makes your donation list – and how you can maximize your impact. Four Clean Water Giving Tips Do it now. Most of that December year-end giving happens on December 29, 30 or 31, but the sooner that you
Tell Lansing Lawmakers to Stop Attacking our Water in Lame Duck Session!
The Michigan lame duck legislature is racing to pass attacks on our water before the new legislature and Governor are seated in January. We need all Michigan clean water activists to help fight back by making two quick phone calls, one to your State House Representative and one to your State Senator, asking them to oppose the multiple anti-environment and anti-democratic initiatives that corporate lobbyists have pushed lawmakers to pursue during this backward and unaccountable session. You can read more details below about the different dirty water bills that are being pushed, but here's
Finally, Coal Ash Rule Out by End of 2014
By Jennifer Peters, National Water Campaign Coordinator (Follow Jennifer on Twitter - @EarthAvenger) Update - February 18, 2014: Click here to tell EPA to Put Drinking Water First and Protect Communities from Coal Ash! After years of delay, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced it will finalize a coal ash disposal rule by December 19, 2014. This is great news and a step in the right direction. It’s also a testament to the power of sustained activism in the court of public opinion and the federal courts. This announcement is the result of a lawsuit settlement brought by public
States Taking the Lead
Click to learn more By Cindy Luppi, New England Regional Director Exciting news: state legislatures are starting to ramp up across the country...and a majority of them, at least 33, are considering bills to regulate toxic chemicals. Clean Water Action is leading the charge on this issue in California, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, and Minnesota. It's inspiring to see momentum spreading nation-wide. You might be asking "why the big push?" or "why now?" There are a number of factors coalescing to focus lawmakers on this issue like never before. One huge reason is large retailers like
Three Weeks Later - What Have We Learned from West Virginia?
By Michael Kelly, Communications Director (Follow Michael on Twitter - @MichaelEdKelly) Three weeks ago nearly 300,000 West Virginians lost their tap water because of a spill at a chemical storage facility less than a mile and half from an intake for the region’s drinking water. Cities and businesses were shut down and people couldn’t use their water for more than five days. Numerous failures led to this disaster, including a lack of state inspection of the facility for the last decade to the lack of health data available on the chemical. The question is, what have we learned? We need stronger
