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Earth Month 2025 – Getting PFAS out of California's Groundwater
Clean Water Action and our local environmental justice allies are dedicated to safeguarding California’s waters from PFAS pollution! This Earth Month, we’re focusing on telling the story of how our legislative efforts to address PFAS pollution affect communities reliant on groundwater in California.
ReThink Takes on Takeout - No More Trash To-Go
Changing consumer behavior to return reusable takeout items - creating the circular economy we are looking to build - will take time, education, and commitment from the food service industry and programs such as ours, so ReThink Disposable is rethinking takeout.
Taking On PFAS and Polluters - National Teflon Day 2025
Did you know that April 6th is National Teflon Day? That’s right, it’s a day to celebrate a product that is severely toxic to humans and has helped contaminate the planet! But the industry wants you to think that is a good thing. In California, Clean Water Action is celebrating National Teflon Day a different way.
Happy Earth Month — Join Our Pledge To Get Rid Of PFAS In California!
A wide group of industries have made billions making PFAS or putting them in products. Now we’re asking for them to be removed. SB 823 (Allen) is a sweeping bill that would require PFAS to be removed from most products in California just a few years.
More Foam Bans In California: Milpitas Adopts First Reading Of Expanded Polystyrene Foodware Ordinance
Excitingly, on May 16, 2017, Milpitas City Council in California held a public hearing and adopted the first reading of an Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) foodware ordinance necessary to restrict the provision of EPS foam food service ware and protect public health, safety, and welfare.
Both the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and The California Restaurant Association (CRA) submitted letters of opposition to Milpitas Ordinance 293. During a preliminary public hearing on May 2, 2017, a representative of the CRA opposed the ordinance on the grounds that a ban would harm the plastics industry by