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Public Members Resign from Sham San Joaquin Valley Air District Advisory Workgroup
All three public representatives to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District’s Emission Reduction Credit (ERC) Public Advisory Workgroup (PAW) are resigning. Along with overall frustrations with lack of accountability for systemic failures and for poor facilitation of the PAW, they are resigning in response to a two part, damning exposé from Aarón Cantú at Capital and Main showing that the fake and overvalued credits were cashed in by the oil industry to continue dangerous drilling harmful.
Towards A Zero Waste Future At the Zero Waste Youth Convergence
Waste is a design flaw! This was the message at the 5th Annual Zero Waste Youth Convergence (ZWYC) in San Francisco. Zero Waste Youth is an international organization that engages students and professionals to promote concepts for a zero waste future through waste reduction, reuse, and recycling. This year’s convergence featured 31 speakers, including ReThink Disposable’s very own Chris Slafter, who championed the importance of reducing the use of single use disposable food and beverage packaging items. Waste does not exist in nature. Earth is a closed loop system of perfect efficiency. The
California Leads on Reducing Methane Emissions
Yesterday, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) adopted the strongest regulations in the country to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas production and storage. Clean Water Action and our allies led the charge to get these regulations in place. As California leads the way, the Trump administration is going backwards on this and many other issues, and that’s all the more reason for us to be out in front. Methane is especially critical, because it traps heat about 84 times more than carbon dioxide over 20 years. The regulation also requires operators to capture rather than vent and
Clean Water Currents | Summer 2022
In This Issue Celebrating Clean Water Action's 50th Birthday Protect Our Water from Chemical Spills Making Environmental Justice a Policy Priority Protecting All of Our Water Taking on “Forever” PFAS Chemicals We All Live Downstream: Clean Water Podcast More National Campaigns News State and Regional News California Colorado Connecticut District of Columbia / Virginia Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota New Jersey Pennsylvania Rhode Island Texas Download the PDF of this newsletter Cheers to 50 Years! Celebrating Clean Water Action’s 50th Birthday. 50 years ago, Clean Water Action’s
