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Clean Water 50 Stories: Roger Smith
To celebrate Clean Water Action's 50th anniversary, we’re sharing our history and journey with the people who have joined us along the way as we worked to protect clean water through #CleanWater50 stories.
Roger Smith joined Clean Water Action's Connecticut team in 2003, shortly after our big win of the Sooty Six Campaign to shut down dirty power plants in the state. He played a pivotal role to further advocate for clean, renewable energy policy at the local level, leading the Neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge that helped municipal leaders and residents in fourteen towns with energy
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
Clean Water Currents | Summer 2022
In This Issue Celebrating Clean Water Action's 50th Birthday Protect Our Water from Chemical Spills Making Environmental Justice a Policy Priority Protecting All of Our Water Taking on “Forever” PFAS Chemicals We All Live Downstream: Clean Water Podcast More National Campaigns News State and Regional News California Colorado Connecticut District of Columbia / Virginia Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota New Jersey Pennsylvania Rhode Island Texas
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Cheers to 50 Years! Celebrating Clean Water Action’s 50th Birthday.
50 years ago, Clean Water Action’s