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Clean Water Action and American Sustainable Business Council Baltimore Press Conference
By Will Fadely, Baltimore Program Organizer Protecting clean water is a cause that not only resonates with environmental types; it reverberates into the private sector too. Clean Water Action (CWA) joined by the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) took to Federal Hill Park for a press conference to announce their successful work and the results of their latest poll, last Thursday morning. The podium and a colorful display of children’s “protect clean water” drawings were set in front of the Baltimore Harbor, where in 2010 a coalition of businesses, nonprofit groups, and City agencies
Let’s #kickcoalash out of our communities
By Jennifer Peters, National Water Campaigns Coordinator. Follow Jennifer on Twitter - @EarthAvenger Join us for a coal ash week of social media action, August 4th - August 8th. Next week marks six months since Duke Energy’s coal ash spill, which dumped more than 39,000 tons of toxic ash and 27 million gallons of contaminated wastewater into the Dan River, the source of drinking water for thousands of Virginians living downstream. Activists from around the country will be highlighting this by using social media, letters to the editor, and blogs (even here!) to urge the Environmental Protection
Solving Stormwater Problems with an Innovative Approach
Over many years and decades, ineffective stormwater management has become a leading cause of the degradation of District waterways like the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers, and smaller tributaries such as Rock Creek, Watts Branch, and Oxen Run.
Minnesota's Cumulative Impacts Law: Rulemaking
In the 2023 Minnesota legislative session, we saw the passage of an important environmental justice law; the cumulative impacts law. This law is currently entering into the rulemaking process, where the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will clarify details of how the law will work in effect. This will be an incredibly important process to engage with, as weak rules could effectively undermine any power this law could hold.
Clean Water Currents | Fall 2023
In This Issue: Congress Should Protect People, Not Polluters! | Devastating Sackett v. EPA Supreme Court Decision Puts All Water At Risk | Lead In Drinking Water - Putting Lead Service Lines Behind Us | PFAS Chemicals - Taking the Burden Off Communities and Our Health | EPA Proposes to Expand Regulation of Toxic Coal Ash | State and Regional News
