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Failing to Protect Drinking Water in California
By Andria Ventura, California Program Manager On April 15, California’s Department of Public Health announced an enforceable drinking water standard for hexavalent chromium (also called chromium-6, the contaminant made famous in the 2000 movie Erin Brockovich, of 10 parts per billion (ppb). This is a disappointing end to the 10 year wait for a limit that was supposed to be established by legislative mandate in 2004 While California is now the only place in the US to regulate hexavalent chromium in drinking water, this standard is 500 times higher than the public health goal of .02 ppb, which
Protecting Clean Water in Vermont: a flatlander’s view
by Jonathan A. Scott, Managing Editor, Clean Water Action News (@jscottnh on Twitter) First, I admit for the record that I do not live in Vermont. However, I can see Vermont from my house. It’s over there, right on the other side of the beautiful Connecticut River. Also for the record, as a New Hampshire resident only since 1989, my views may carry less weight than a native-born New Englander. If you live here, you know that is because only 2 nd or 3 rd generation Granite Staters are considered true natives. The rest of us “ flatlanders” might be living here now, but we are lumped together
Protecting Clean Water: This is personal!
by Jonathan A. Scott, Managing Editor for Clean Water Action News (on twitter @jscottnh) The Obama Administration is proposing to fix huge gaps in Clean Water Act protections by clarifying what streams, wetlands and drinking water sources are protected under the law. Clean Water Action is mobilizing its members and the public to weigh in on the record in support of clean water. The Administration’s intent is not to create new protections, but rather to restore longstanding protections that had been in effect from the time of the law’s passage during the Nixon Administration until about 12