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Cleaning Up Our Air By Cleaning Transportation
The best way to protect our health from the harms of pollution is to prevent pollution in the first place.
That’s why Clean Water Action is so excited to advocate for the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI), which Connecticut joined along with nine other states last year. TCI is a regional effort among northeast states to curb transportation emissions that pose significant health impacts for CT’s residents. This was a major step in the right direction, particularly since every county in CT was given a grade of F for poor air quality according to the 2020 report by the American Lung
3 Things I Learned Just by Showing Up
On March 31st this year, Clean Water Action and the Coalition for a Safe and Healthy CT, an advocacy group that aims to protect our children from toxic chemicals, held a press event to voice concerns over the use of recycled tire rubber as a ground cover in playgrounds and urge passing of the bill to ban its use. I saw firsthand the world in which the Coalition works and learned a few things about the legislative process, the science, and the impact of simply showing up to relay my concern. Here are three things I realized:
Showing up is actually not that hard to do. Driving into the CT state