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Over Fifty Groups Petition EPA to Improve Oversight of Water Pollution from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
Too many communities living near these facilities can no longer use their drinking water wells or have faced higher water bills, and they deserve quick action from EPA to end the livestock industry’s free pass to pollute.
Celebrating 50 Years of Protecting Clean Water
For 50 years we’ve been organizing to protect clean water - and we won’t stop now.
The Clean Water Act at the Supreme Court
The bottom line is clear: Our communities need clean drinking water more than polluters need bigger profits!
A River Quest, a Canoe and a Commitment to #MakeGEPay
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When Denny Alsop first canoed across Massachusetts in 1988 (see the New York Times) to raise awareness of water pollution and push for environmental progress, he probably did not expect to be making the same trek nearly thirty years later. But General Electric's February statement that it would fight the EPA's proposed cleanup plan for the Housatonic River convinced him that there was need to push hard for true restoration of the waterway still tarnished by toxic PCBs.
Early in 2016, GE announced it would relocate to Boston and receive a whopping public
The Murky World of Subsistence Fishing in the San Francisco Bay
It's 11 am on Sunday April 17 on a wooden pier near the ferry building in downtown San Francisco, and the sun is streaming down on an 80-degree weekend.
There aren't many locals around. A teenage couple hold hands on a bench giggling over something on the young man's iPhone, and a family of four bumps their suitcases back along the pier, towards the BART station at Embarcadero, having recently disembarked from a hulking cruise ship docked by pier 39, a half-mile away. They only came up the pier to admire the Bay Bridge one last time, and to pose for a photo before their vacation is officially