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Election Day is Over. What Now?
Breathe.
Election Day has come and gone and we are pretty much where we expected to be -- in the waiting room. We may be here for a couple days, maybe even longer.
This is OK, this is how it should be.
Because every vote counts.
Voters came out in record numbers this year -- the biggest turnout in more than a century. Since so many people voted early and voted by mail, it’s going to take little while to count every vote. It’s incredible. So many people made their voices heard because we are hungry for change, we are ready to take hold of our future, to restore and protect our democracy, to act
Clean Water Action: The Voters Decide Who Wins, Not the Candidates
Donald Trump is ridiculous.There are tens of millions of votes to be counted. The President needs to sit down, be quiet, and let the people’s voice be heard.
Stopping EPA's Reckless Giveaway to Coal Plants
Clean Water Action and eight allied organizations represented by Earthjustice filed suit in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to stop the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Steam Electric Reconsideration Rule.
Why Littering Is Not the True Problem
In our efforts to reduce waste, we have often heard people say that the “real” problem is the people who throw their garbage on the sidewalk and out their car windows. Of course, we agree that we should change this behavior, but the truth is that littering is not the real problem. We need to change the entire system because the plastic trash that floats in the world's oceans actually decompose and release potentially toxic substances into the water.
First, much of the litter items we see—aluminum cans, straws, plastic bags, etc.—are lightweight and easily blow off of garbage trucks, landfills
Awakening: My Road to Environmentalism
As a self-proclaimed “social justice warrior”, I am ashamed of how late I arrived to environmentalism. Growing up in Baltimore, I focused on police brutality, homelessness, and a faulty public education system. I remember walking down Preston street seeing my community members throwing corner store trash in the road. I saw cigarette butts and soda cans in the alleyways, but I still didn’t make the connection. How could I not notice the lead poisoning epidemic? Why did I consider sewage overflows and the Chesapeake Bay pollution to be a less important issue? Why do so many put environmental