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Clean Water Action Speaks Out Against Coal Ash
Until EPA enforces the federal rule and ensures all coal ash dumps are regulated, contamination of groundwater and drinking water supplies will continue. We must make enforcement a priority and mandate safe closure and cleanup of coal ash nationwide to ensure all communities are protected.
Environmental Groups Call on U.S. EPA to Investigate Potential Harms of Lead Telecom Cables
Environmental Defense Fund, Below the Blue, and Clean Water Action submitted a letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan today, calling on the agency to investigate the uncontrolled release of lead by more than 2,000 lead-sheathed telecom cables into water or surface soil across the nation. More than 300 of these cables are posing a threat to community drinking water sources.
My Generation is Taking Action for Our Environmental Future
Pollution impacts everyone, and there is no better time to band together to protect clean air and water than now.
Devils in the unknown details in proposed “forever chemicals” settlement between New Jersey and Solvay
New Jersey’s lead environmental groups fighting to hold the state’s chemical industry accountable for their decades long, negligent, pervasive poisoning of people and environment urged caution in interpreting the complex settlement announced this morning by the Murphy Administration.
Environmental Justice at the MA State House
Photo: Maria Belen Power - Chelsea GreenRoots (center), Andrea Nyamekye - Neighbor to Neighbor (left), Madeleine Scammell - BUSPH (right) testify at environmental justice hearing
Just last week at the Massachusetts State House, the Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture held a hearing for a new environmental justice bill. This bill aims to increase support for environmental justice communities as defined in former Governor Deval Patrick’s 2014 executive order and the EJ policy that was originally issued way back in 2002 and updated in 2017. The Executive Order lays out a