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Clean Water Action Renews Call for Governor Whitmer to Revoke Line 5 Easement Immediately
The following statement can be attributed to Sean McBrearty, Michigan Legislative and Policy Director, Clean Water Action: “Last week, Governor Whitmer asked Enbridge Inc., to provide financial assurance mechanisms as well as an insurance policy for the Line 5 pipeline that names the state of Michigan as coinsured. We know that nothing will protect the Great Lakes from an increasingly likely Line 5 oil spill short of revoking Enbridge’s easement, but at the very least Enbridge’s insurance policy would ensure that Michigan taxpayers aren’t left holding the bag when a devastating oil spill does
We Will Not Be Silenced: Speaking Out Against NEPA Rollbacks
Clean Water Action joined environmental advocates and community leaders from across the country for a rally and hearing in Washington, DC to speak out against the Trump Administration's rollbacks of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Kim Gaddy, Clean Water Action's Environmental Justice Organizer, traveled from Newark, NJ to speak at the hearing.
Protecting Californians from Oil and Gas Production
More than 5 million Californians live near oil and gas production. In Kern County, oil production is wedged between homes and looms over schools and playground. Our communities are under a haze of contaminants due to the gargantuan fields of oil and gas wells bordering towns and scattered along our roads.
Comments on proposed regulations Credit for Carbon Oxide Sequestration
We are deeply concerned that the proposed regulations will continue to allow claimants of the Section 45Q tax credit to benefit from the production of fossil fuels without adequately demonstrating secure geologic storage of captured carbon, as the law requires.
Clean Water Action on HR 1166 -- USEIT Act
February 5, 2019 Download this letter here The Honorable Paul Tonko Chair, Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change U.S. House of Representatives 2123 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable John Shimkus Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change U.S. House of Representatives 2123 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Chair Tonko and Ranking Member Shimkus On behalf of Clean Water Action, our members, and supporters, I write to provide a written statement for the subcommittee’s hearing on Fenbruary 6, 2020 on H.R.. 1166, the
