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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
Comments on proposed regulations Credit for Carbon Oxide Sequestration
We are deeply concerned that the proposed regulations will continue to allow claimants of the Section 45Q tax credit to benefit from the production of fossil fuels without adequately demonstrating secure geologic storage of captured carbon, as the law requires.
Letter to Congress, Re: Support Funding for Lead Service Line Replacement
While most of us know about the lead contamination in the tap water of Flint MI, few people realize that lead-contaminated drinking water is a nationwide problem, affecting every state. Action is long overdue. We urge the House of Representatives to support the Tlaib/Kildee lead service line funding amendment.
