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Closing the Floodgates
Coal-fired power plants are the largest source of toxic water pollution in the United States, dumping billions of pounds of pollution into America’s rivers, lakes, and streams each year. These pollutants, including lead and mercury, are dangerous to humans and wreak havoc in our watersheds even in very small amounts. It’s time for power plants to stop using our rivers, lakes and streams as open sewers to dump their waste!
Kids Help Monitor Newark's Dirty Diesel Near Their School
In December member groups of the Coalition for Healthy Ports (CHPs, which NJEF chairs) and dozens of environmentalists, community activists, port drivers, and students conducted a truck count at various locations in the East and South Wards of Newark where port trucks first hit the local streets.
The Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC) did a great job organizing truck counting in front of the Hawkins Street School and other neighborhood locations in Newark. Additional truck counting was conducted in the South Ward by the graduates of NJEF's Newark-based Urban Environmental Institute.
LeWanda Gipson
Clean Water Action Board of Directors, Secretary Clean Water Fund Board of Directors, Assistant Secretary
LeWanda Gipson joined Clean Water Action and Clean Water fund in 2021, bringing new energy and valued expertise to the organization.
20 years of industry knowledge and experience allows LeWanda to oversee day-to-day operations nationwide for the agency with ease. Her track record of increasing revenue and growing the bottom line is evident in her decision making. She is a results-oriented leader who has had tremendous success in finance, human resources, strategic planning, IT management
Curt Moultine
Curt began his canvassing career with the Michigan Citizen’s Lobby in August of 1989. He became Canvass Director for Georgia Citizen Action in March of 1991 and continued in the same role for Clean Water Action in Lansing, Michigan from 1993 until 2001.
Among his accomplishments as a Canvass Director, Curt promoted over a dozen staff members who went on to become Canvass Directors and Program Directors. In his current role with the Hudson Bay Company, Curt works with the Michigan Clean Water Action field canvasses.
He currently resides in Charlotte, Michigan with his wife Carol. They have 3
Emily Woodcock
Emily began at Clean Water Action in September 2004 in Ann Arbor where she filled several roles such as Senior Field Manager, before her current position as Canvass Director. She also canvasses two days a week, and immensely values her time spent training staff and organizing in the community. Emily grew up near Philadelphia, raised by parents who taught her early on the importance of working to better the community in which she lived. Before working for Clean Water Action, Emily spent a year as a Field Manager at the Rape Assistance and Awareness Program in Denver. She also has a degree in