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My Summer Canvass Experience at Clean Water Action
My name is Erin Dracup and I’ve spent the summer as a field canvasser for Clean Water Action working on the campaigns to ban toxic PFAS in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
I grew up in Ithaca, NY and currently live in Boston where I attend Boston University and study Health Sciences with the intent of pursuing a Masters in Public Health. I’m most passionate about plastic pollution as well as how low-income communities and communities of color are disproportionately impacted by water quality issues.
When looking for a summer internship, Clean Water Action caught my eye as I knew I could advance
Clean Water Action Applauds the House for Needed Investments in Drinking Water
"We applaud the House for including $45 billion in funding for lead service line replacement in the INVEST in America Act"
Clean Water Action: SCOTUS Decision on Voting Rights Highlights the Urgent Need for Congress to Protect Our Freedom to Vote
"Today’s decision makes passing legislation to strengthen our democracy and buttress the freedom vote even more important."
What I told EPA in Kansas City
This week advocates and activists are in Kansas City, Kansas for the one and only public hearing the Environmental Protection Agency scheduled for it's scheme to strip protections from millions of miles of streams and more than half the wetlands across the nation. Clean Water Action was there as well. This is my testimony to EPA about the Dirty Water Rule. You can watch my testimony here (video courtesy of our friends NWF Water)
Revised Definition of “Waters of the United States” Public HearingFebruary 27-28 th 2019, Kansas City, Kansas Statement by Jennifer Peters, National Water ProgramsAdvocates Call on EPA to Drop Its Dangerous Dirty Water Rule
(Kansas City, Kansas)-- Today, stakeholders held a press conference to call on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to protect clean water and abandon its proposed Dirty Water Rule, the latest in the agency’s relentless efforts to rollback critical protections and make it easier for industry to endanger our kids and communities without any accountability.
Quotes and videos can be found below. Full statements are available via email.
Drue Winters, Policy Director, American Fisheries Society“The rule fails to align with the original intent of the Clean Water Act to ‘to restore and maintain