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Clean Water Action Releases Report Showing Mon Valley Air Quality Worst in PA

Lack of cleanup for Clairton in US Steel announcement highlighted

Pittsburgh - Clean Water Action released today a report detailing the history of violations of the federal Clean Air Act standards in the Mon Valley over the past 12 years. The results found air quality monitors in the Mon Valley recorded some of the worst air, not just in Allegheny County, but throughout Pennsylvania.

The report details the failure to protect Mon Valley residents from illegal levels of both sulfur dioxide and fine particles, or breathable soot. Over 400 exceedances of federal standards for these pollutants

Lost Hills Residents Don't Want Company-Sponsored Gym Memberships—They Want Clean Air and Clean Water

This blog is in response to David Brooks’ recent op-ed published in the New York Times on May 17, focused on improving the health and lives of residents in Lost Hills, California, a community in which I work with Clean Water Action. We submitted a letter to the editor to the paper in response to Mr. Brooks' article, but the editors chose not to publish it. Still, you might want to read Mr. Brooks' piece before you dive in, here.

Farming towns are towns with lots of farms around, whereas company towns are owned almost entirely by the town's major company. The company provides infrastructure to

Clean Water Currents -- Spring 2019

In This Issue: The Water Polluter Loophole | Sacrificing Colorado's Groundwater | Reforming our Democracy | Court Rules to Protect Clean Water | The Forever Chemical | Rejecting the Dirty Water Rule
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