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Clean Water on the Move - May 2023
Welcome to Clean Water on the Move, your monthly update from Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund in New Jersey!
Taking a Ride to the Port of Newark
Port-adjacent communities, like Newark’s Ironbound and South Ward neighborhoods, are home to high concentrations of polluting facilities and have some of the country's highest rates of childhood asthma.
Groups Celebrate Success of NJ's Get Past Plastic Law After One Year
“Billions” of Single-Use Items Eliminated
US EPA Rule should go Further and Faster in Transition to Zero Emission Heavy Duty Vehicles.
Statement by Amy Goldsmith, NJ State Director on EPA Phase 3 Greenhouse Gas Rule for Heavy Duty Vehicles
Garbage Patch Kids: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
If you have read the news recently, you have probably seen an article or two about a recent study of the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”. The articles report estimates of plastic pollution in the trillions, and swaths of plastic waste that are the size of countries.
Those numbers might make it feel like the issue is too massive to solve. You may be asking yourself, “how do we do something about a problem that is thousands of miles away?”
So, how can we wrap our heads around this issue and put it into context? Technically, no country owns these waters since it is in the middle of the Pacific