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Limit oil production. Protect California’s water.
California’s efforts to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions have earned it a reputation as a climate leader. Most of the state’s actions, however, have focused on the “demand-side” of carbon emissions: reducing energy consumption, increasing efficiency, using cleaner fuels and energy sources, and reducing vehicle miles traveled. However, as the country’s 5 th largest oil producer (recently falling from 3 rd), the state has never done enough to keep polluting fossil fuels from being produced in the first place.
Connecticut's Legislative Session 2018: The Same, Only Different (Hint: Good Things are Possible)
As the legislative session opens in Connecticut, the lay of the land looks the same as last year, except with some promising differences that are largely the results of grassroots action taken by our members and allies. It’s a short session with a sharp focus on finance. But what better entrée to talk about the economic benefits and value of clean energy? Here are three specific things we’re keeping an eye on: The Energy Efficiency Fund and Green Bank are still reeling from the year-end raid of $63 million from their balance sheets, but they have regrouped with plans to keep operating. The
The Misadventures of Ryan Zinke
It’s been exactly a year since Zinke inexplicably rode a horse to his first day of work as Secretary of the Interior – and it’s been a great year for the oil and gas industry, but a bad year for public lands, clean air protections, and government accountability.
Welcome to Clean Water Action, Massachusetts!
Everything is interconnected: clean water, good health, a stable climate, a healthy environment, economic well-being, a robust democracy, and justice for all—especially the most vulnerable among us. That’s why Clean Water Action aims to makes these basic rights and values central to all of our work.
DC Statehood
DC residents lack basic citizenship rights. Statehood is the only path to equal rights and full citizenship for residents of the District – it is the "unfinished chapter of the civil rights movement." More than 700,000 DC residents deserve to have a voting representative and two senators in Congress along with all the other citizenship rights every other American enjoys. That is why we support statehood for the District of Columbia and are calling on Congress to make DC the 51st state. DC residents pay the highest federal taxes in the country, yet have no voting representation in either the
