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New Jersey is ready for cleaner cars, cleaner air and climate action
Advocates from across the state testified before the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) in support of proposed Advanced Clean Cars II standards.
Transition to EVs should be good for climate AND unions
If Michigan wants to thrive in the 21st Century we need a new model. Building a real clean energy economy means demanding corporate accountability for human and ecological impacts of production — and that starts by protecting and supporting workers with good union contracts.
Line 5: Tribal Nations and Advocacy Groups Respond as Enbridge Appeals Shutdown Order
A federal court ruled on June 16th that Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline is in trespass on the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa reservation and that it constitutes a public nuisance by posing an imminent threat of rupture that could devastate the Band’s drinking water, plants and wildlife, and the region’s economy. The court required a segment of the Line 5 pipeline to be shut down within three years. Enbridge's response of an appeal and proposal to re-route the pipeline does not protect the Band, their treaty-reserved territory, or the Great Lakes from the threat of Line 5.
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
