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No Plastic Straws - New Jersey Restaurants Help Curb Plastic Pollution
Governments and municipalities all over the world are proposing bans on single-use plastic straws, from the U.K. to Monmouth Beach, New Jersey! Here in New Jersey, ReThink Disposable is excited to highlight restaurants who have changed their own policies on serving plastic straws in order to address the issues of plastic pollution in our oceans. Two such restaurants are The Shannon Rose Pub and Spuntino Wine Bar & Italian Tapas in North Jersey which have both stopped serving straws to customers, giving them out only when requested. Regan DeBenedetto, the Director of Operations at the
Thank you Lowe’s: Toxic paint strippers going, going….!
From May 6 th through May 11th, 2018, consumers from around the country visited their local Lowe’s home improvement stores as a part of the “Mind the Store’s” Week of Action to urge Lowe’s to remove harmful chemicals from its products – in particular, methylene chloride commonly found in paint strippers. Massachusetts’ Clean Water Action staff Kadineyse Paz, Laura Spark, and myself went to Lowe’s in Braintree, MA to partake in this campaign on May 10 th (pictured above). In the Lowe's in Dedham we had Clean Water Action New England Director Cindy Luppi join a longtime activist and her
How the Drought is Impacting Californian's Access to Water
Drought response should include proactive long-term solutions for vulnerable communities, helping to address not only this drought but long-term water quality and water supply challenges.
New England for Offshore Wind
As our region moves towards cleaner wind energy, Clean Water Action is working with allies and our union partners to ensure that our clean energy future is built by local workers, and that we equitably distribute new transmission infrastructure.
Environmental Justice and Siting Reform
As Massachusetts upgrades its energy infrastructure, it’s important to make sure that new energy facilities are equitably distributed, so that Environmental Justice communities are not continually overburdened.
