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We Need Congress to Pass a "Clean" Debt Limit
Clean Water Action has joined The American Federation of Teachers and 140 other organizations in calling on Congress to pass a clean bill that carries out the routine task of raising the debt limit to cover federal spending to which it has already committed. The consequences of not doing so put pressure on people and the economy, and threaten programs that matter to all of us.
Learn more at AFT.org/DebtCeiling.
Download The Full Letter [PDF]
Testimony on MD HB161, the Waste Disposal Authority Sunset Act
Today Clean Water Action testified on HB161, the Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority Sunset Act. This important bill sets up a review by the state Department of Legislative Services to consider whether or how this quasi-state agency, created by the state in 1980 to plan and finance trash incinerators, should continue.
Congress is massively failing the public
Despite the fact that I knew, in real time, how many members of Congress were voting to wipe out protections for our water, supporting an agenda to walk back action on climate, and putting the short-term profits of campaign donors before the needs of the public, I was a little shocked at the terrible scores.
Clean Water Action scorecard shows Congress is failing on the environment
"The Clean Water Scorecard is further proof that we need a change in priorities in Congress. This Congress took every opportunity it had to put the profits of corporate polluters before the well-being of the public and the health of the environment. They may as well have put lobbyists in charge of writing bills."
Clean Water Action Calls on the Senate to Reject Brett Kavanaugh
"Throughout his career Judge Kavanaugh has ruled for coal companies and other polluters, attempted to restrict EPA's ability to protect human health and the environment, and sided with attempted to allow states to undermine federal laws to protect our air and water. We can't afford another justice who will put the needs or corporations and special interests before the health of our communities."