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Clean Water Action's Field Canvass Made a Difference in Midterms
Statewide, the organization's robust field operations brought dozens of professional canvassers into neighborhoods throughout four targeted districts - knocking on more than 220,000 doors across New Jersey and mobilizing tens of thousands of voters to the polls.
Trees can’t vote. Rivers can’t vote. You can.
Our rivers, streams, and wetlands threatened by a repeal of the Clean Water Rule can not vote. Our western forests threatened by more frequent and severe wildfires due to climate change can not vote. Endangered species, like the iconic California Condor, threatened by congressional rollbacks on protections, can not vote.
Why we must face climate change with a positive attitude
The world won’t end if humans keep up with business as usual, but we will face the most catastrophic loss of human and animal life the world has ever seen. We can’t downplay these findings. The real question is how do we talk about this in a way that communicates meaning and mobilization, instead of fear?
Children's Health Month Ends Today, but Our Work Continues
This blog post is by a member of the Coalition for a Safe and Healthy Connecticut. October is Children's Health Month and what we do to the environment impacts children’s health. As a pediatric and public health nurse, we didn't learn much about environmental health other than a bit about air and water pollution and always thought of pollution as outside the home or workplace, coming from a discharge pipe or a smokestack. Over the past few years, our understanding of environmental health has expanded significantly. We now know that the indoor environment is filled with toxic chemicals and is
Approval of flawed stormwater plans disappointing
This past Monday, Governor Hogan’s Administration circulated a press release praising local governments for having "met their requirements under state law to develop financing plans to reduce polluted stormwater runoff and protect and restore local waters and the Chesapeake Bay." But most of these plans don't actually meet the requirements of the law.
