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Victory: California's new plastic microbead ban is nation's strongest
Breaking News! Governor Brown signed AB 888 (Bloom) to ban the use of plastic microbeads in personal care products into law. Clean Water Action was a co-sponsor of the bill fought for three years to get this landmark bill passed. This would not have been possible without Clean Water Action members like you. AB 888 memeAB 888 is the strongest plastic microbead ban in the country.
Healing Our Waters
During the last week of September, Healing Our Waters – Great Lakes Coalition brought together a diverse group of more than 400 people from throughout the Great Lakes region to attend the Great Lakes Restoration Conference in Chicago. I attended as Minnesota’s state lead for the coalition. At the largest annual gathering of Great Lakes supporters and activists, we learned about important Great Lakes restoration issues and projects. We also developed strategies to advance federal, regional, and local restoration goals for the Great Lakes. During the conference, discussions focused on many
On the Right Side of History with a Commonsense Veto of the Keystone XL Pipeline Bill
By John Noel, National Oil and Gas Campaign Coordinator - Follow John on Twitter (@Noel_Johnny) Today we are thrilled to hear the President vetoed S.1, a bill which would approve the Keystone Pipeline and put millions at risk of groundwater contamination while significantly increasing carbon pollution from the dirtiest oil on the planet. The risk of spills from the pipeline are put squarely on the backs of landowners, farmers and Native American communities in the pipelines path, while the benefits of the project are concentrated to a few in the fossil fuel industry. Clean Water Action
Hit ‘em where it hurts…The Bottom Dollar
By Will Fadely, Baltimore Program Organizer – Follow Will on Twitter (@TrillChillWill ) Since Energy Answer's entrance into Baltimore in 2008, we have been organizing with numerous groups like Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN), Sierra Club, Institute for Local Self Reliance (ILSR), Community Research, Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) and others in order to fight the proposed Energy Answers Incinerator. Especially instrumental was Free Your Voice a group of local students assisted by United Workers. The campaign has focused on encouraging groups contracted to receive energy from the
California's Oil and Gas Injection Mess
By Andrew Grinberg, California Oil and Gas Program Manager - Follow Andrew on Twitter ( @AndrewBGrinberg) This is one of the most outrageous things we’ve heard in a long time. As California faces one of the worst droughts in recorded history, State officials have disclosed that California has allowed the injection of oil and gas wastewater and other contaminated fluids into aquifers that are suitable to be used as drinking water. Oil and gas wastewater is nasty stuff, high in salinity, toxic chemicals and sometimes containing radioactive material. New data just revealed that the wastewater
