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Baltimore's Lead Testing Survey
Clean Water Action is conducting a study of 200 homes in Baltimore City and County to test for lead contamination in drinking water.
Lead can enter water if it is present in the service lines, in-home pipes, or faucets and fixtures in your home, and if water is corrosive or has high mineral content. To learn more about how lead enters drinking water, click here.
Clean Water Action can test your drinking water for free if:
your home was built before 1986 you have not replaced the drinking water pipes in your home you can allow us to collect the sample after at least 6 hours of not using yourUpdate on Nestle’s attempt to withdraw and privatize more of Michigan’s water
Over the course of the last winter, Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality held a public comment period on Nestle again asking to increase the amount of water that they take from a well in Osceola Township, Michigan. Clean Water Action members from across the state made their voices heard.
Coal Free Maryland Waters
Update: Thank you to all of our members who sent comments. The comment period is now closed - we will update you when there is an update.
We have a problem with coal-fired power plants dumping toxic pollutants such as lead, mercury, arsenic, and selenium into our waterways. These pollutants concentrate in the food chain, and already Maryland has fish consumption advisories for mercury in over ten species.
Under the old, outdated rules coal plants were allowed to dump a nearly unlimited amount of toxic waste directly into our waters, threatening our water and the health of communities
Mobilize and Localize: catching up with our local work
A few weeks after Maryland's whirlwind of a legislative session, it's time to dive deep on our local level campaigns. Clean Water Action supporters across Maryland are fighting for clean air and water, healthy communities, a life-sustaining climate, and a meaningful democracy. Here's what's going on - and how you can join in.
Fighting climate change and failed development: In Baltimore, we've been working with environmentalists, labor organizers, human rights advocates, and many more to mobilize hundreds of Baltimoreans to the People's Climate March this Saturday. With local rallies, open
Earth Week Hero - David Tykulsker
"Fighting to leave this world a better place by making the best of what we got," is a driving force behind Clean Water Action's Earth Week Hero, David Tykulsker.
David has been at the heart of our organization since he joined the New Jersey Board in the 1980s. In 2005, he became the National Board of Clean Water Action, a position he still holds today.
David believes that "our kids should not live in the same mess we are in" and that's why he has spent his life working to protect them. For his years of dedication, we recently honored David with a Grassroots Environmental Achievement Award at