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Introducing our Connecticut Clean Water Youth Advocates
Students and young people all over the world are standing up to address many significant problems facing our society—and making a big difference! We’re doing the same by launching a club at our school called “Choate for Clean Water.” As juniors in high-school, we became concerned about clean drinking water through our passion of politics and environmental studies. Our club’s focus is to raise awareness and educate within our community about the importance of clean water and how policies at the state and federal level impact our water. Choate for Clean Water hopes to influence students to
Hearing from Our Members
CT Member Survey Results We asked our members in Connecticut what they were concerned about. The results are in and issues like stormwater runoff, plastic pollution and PFAS contamination of drinking water sources around the country, including some private wells in Greenwich were top priorities. Members are also concerned about corporate buy-outs of water companies, water bottling companies getting rights to our water, protecting well water, bacterial contamination from nutrients, agriculture and leaking septic tanks. Members also support that water is part of the public trust and believe that
Clean Water Action Celebrates Environmental Heroes in Connecticut
Environmental advocacy work has been pretty daunting these past two years. Every day it seems there is another attack on our environment whether it’s rolling back the Clean Power Plan, withdrawal from the historic Paris Agreement, allowing more methane pollution, rolling back achievable emission standards for cars and trucks, opening up public lands to drilling and mining, reducing standards for maintaining coal ash ponds or rolling back the Clean Water Rule. The list goes on and on.
Weather and Pollution
Hurricane Michael, a historic category 4 hurricane has devastated the Florida panhandle. Connecticut also experienced some extremely serious weather events earlier this month including two tornadoes touching down in New Canaan and Mansfield that downed trees and ripped shingles off roofs.
New England Currents | Fall 2018
In this issue: Massachusetts legislative round-up | Endorsements in Massachusetts | Fall for Water in Massachusetts | Primary Wrap-Up: Rhode Island | ReThink Disposable in Rhode Island | Clean Energy Recap in Connecticut | Don't Take Water for Granted in Connecticut
