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Public Members Resign from Sham San Joaquin Valley Air District Advisory Workgroup
All three public representatives to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District’s Emission Reduction Credit (ERC) Public Advisory Workgroup (PAW) are resigning. Along with overall frustrations with lack of accountability for systemic failures and for poor facilitation of the PAW, they are resigning in response to a two part, damning exposé from Aarón Cantú at Capital and Main showing that the fake and overvalued credits were cashed in by the oil industry to continue dangerous drilling harmful.
Pursuing Environmental Justice In Kern County
Clean Water Action has been working with communities in Kern County since 2014 to bring resources and attention to the needs of local residents in order to advocate for community health protections and improved regulations on the oil and gas industry.
Polluting Oil Wastewater Facility Finally Closing After Settlement With Environmental and Community Groups
More than two years after agreeing to stop polluting groundwater near Bakersfield, Valley Water Management Company (VWMC) has announced that it has stopped dumping contaminated oil and gas wastewater at its Race Track Hills and Fee 34 facilities.
A settlement agreement announced in July 2016 between watchdog groups Association of Irritated Residents, Clean Water Fund, and Center for Environmental Health, and oil and gas wastewater disposal company, VWMC, required the company to stop discharging toxic levels of chemicals into open pits that contaminated groundwater at two of its facilities east
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.
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