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Years ago I volunteered on election day outside a suburban Detroit polling station at a majority Black precinct, speaking to voters about an renewable energy ballot proposal. I spoke to one man trying to vote before work. He arrived an hour before his shift, but the wait was already too long. Returned on his lunch break only to turn around after seeing the still long line. He got back in line after 5 PM. When I saw him checking the time an hour later and quietly heading to his car, I asked him why he had to leave again without casting his vote - it was obviously important to him. His child’s

By Elizabeth Saunders, Massachusetts Director - Follow our Boston office on Twitter ( @CleanH2OMA) Elizabeth and Her Sign The People's Climate March was an incredibly powerful experience. The Clean Water Action Boston team joined a bus organized by Alternatives for Community and Environment, the leading environmental justice organization in Boston, which organized dozens of youth leaders and others to travel together to the march. The march was equal parts protest/call to action and celebration. Of course it was a protest against the lack of commitment from our political leaders to doing the

By Bob Wendelgass, President and CEO. Follow Bob on Twitter ( @BWendelgass) Just part of Clean Team Water at the #PeoplesClimate March 24 hours later and I still can't get over it. 400,000. 400,000 people came to New York. 400,000 came to demand we take climate pollution seriously. To demand that we say no to subsidies for big oil and yes to clean energy. To demand justice. 400,000 came to demand action. Now you can act too - by supporting the President's clean power plan to clean up the biggest source of climate pollution in this country. I was so proud to march with dozens of Clean Water