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Election Day is Over. What Now?
Breathe. Election Day has come and gone and we are pretty much where we expected to be -- in the waiting room. We may be here for a couple days, maybe even longer. This is OK, this is how it should be. Because every vote counts. Voters came out in record numbers this year -- the biggest turnout in more than a century. Since so many people voted early and voted by mail, it’s going to take little while to count every vote. It’s incredible. So many people made their voices heard because we are hungry for change, we are ready to take hold of our future, to restore and protect our democracy, to act
Clean Water Action: The Voters Decide Who Wins, Not the Candidates
Donald Trump is ridiculous.There are tens of millions of votes to be counted. The President needs to sit down, be quiet, and let the people’s voice be heard.
Stopping EPA's Reckless Giveaway to Coal Plants
Clean Water Action and eight allied organizations represented by Earthjustice filed suit in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to stop the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Steam Electric Reconsideration Rule.
Much more than just knocking on doors!
Clean Water Action works hard to keep people involved in the democratic process, even outside of election day. Contrary to popular belief, politicians are not working against the interest of the people. They just have a lot on their plates. Thousands of bills can come across an elected official's desk (if the bill number is A2500, that means it is the 2,500 bill introduced that 2 year session alone)! Big industries spend a lot of money to keep lobbyists in the capitol to be sure elected officials vote in the industries favor. We will never have the money that big corporations have to spend on
My City, My Vision
Guest post by Gene Lawton, Coalition for Social Justice “Why the heck aren’t we a Green Community?”I wondered aloud to myself one day early in 2014. My city, Brockton, MA, about an hour south of Boston, was doing all sorts of stuff that would help it qualify for hundreds of thousands of dollars in incentives under the state Green Communities program–serious bucks for a working class town like ours. Through my work promoting a fair energy efficiency system in MA with the Coalition for Social Justice- a member of the statewide Green Justice Coalition with Clean Water Action–I knew that in 2008
