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Support Small Businesses in Their Time of Need
We love our partners in our ReThink Disposable program. Those businesses have worked hard to eliminate their use of single-use food ware by switching to reusable food ware, and have also helped to educate their customers about why it is so important to move away from our disposable culture. And we’re crushed that many of these businesses, these friends have been deeply impacted by over the past 6 weeks.
But there is something we can do -- work hard for them! Most of our partners have had to lay off workers and scale down their operations to make ends meet. You can support Clean Water Action
What Clean Water Action Means to Me
Earth Day has always had a special meaning for me – a birthday for Earth and a call to action to do what we can to protect it. In 1970, I organized the very first Earth Day event at my school in Oakland. Eschewing the bus, I enlisted a crew of friends in a bike caravan to ride 10 miles to school. Alarmed by the oil spills along the coast, and the poisoning of wildlife and humans from DDT, my classmates and I led a day long teach-in. This was the spark that ignited what has become a lifelong career as an activist. Fast forward 20 years, it seemed only fitting to celebrate the opening of Clean
Clean Water Advocates Applaud Immediate Statewide Moratorium on Water Shutoffs to Protect Californians
As COVID-19 Shows There is No Public Health Without Clean Water for All, Governor Newsom Takes Important Steps to Protect Public Health and Combat the Spread of Disease Group Supports Further Action to Meet Urgent Drinking Water Needs During COVID-19 Crisis
SACRAMENTO, CA - Clean Water Action, Community Water Center, Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, NextGen California, and Natural Resources Defense Council released the following statement today in response to the Governor’s Executive Order N-42-20:
“Gov. Newsom’s Executive Order N-42-20 recognizes that access to safe, clean
COVID-19 pandemic threatens water shutoffs, poses bottled water scarcity for vulnerable Californians
“We applaud those utilities who have not only placed a moratorium on shutoffs during the pandemic, but which are turning the water back on for those whose water service was turned off prior to this crisis,” said Jennifer Clary, Water Program Manager at Clean Water Action. “Those who were struggling before this emergency hit need help even more now. We urge the governor to ensure that all residential water providers follow this example.”
Protect California's Groundwater From Injection Wells: Pass AB 1882
If you’re not looking for anything you’ll never find it. This has held true when it comes to contamination from oil and gas production in California for the last century. But the era of regulators ignoring the industry’s groundwater impacts needs to end.
Assembly Bill 1882, introduced by Assemblymember Das Williams, takes an important step by requiring water regulators to monitor our precious aquifers for pollution caused by the oil and gas injection wells.
The bill, supported by Clean Water Action and many others (here's a letter of support signed by some of California's best-known