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New England for Offshore Wind
As our region moves towards cleaner wind energy, Clean Water Action is working with allies and our union partners to ensure that our clean energy future is built by local workers, and that we equitably distribute new transmission infrastructure.
Environmental Justice and Siting Reform
As Massachusetts upgrades its energy infrastructure, it’s important to make sure that new energy facilities are equitably distributed, so that Environmental Justice communities are not continually overburdened.
Improving Air Quality
Poor air quality from transit pollution, energy generating stations, and other polluting facilities impacts everyone in Massachusetts, but it disproportionately harms low-income communities and communities of color. Clean Water Action is advancing both legislative and grassroots initiatives to improve air quality and respiratory health in Massachusetts.
NGO Letter to EPA, re: Methane Standards
Protective standards must include no carveouts, and must secure the substantial, science-based pollution reductions needed to help address the climate crisis and to ensure healthy communities.
Clean Water Action | Clean Water Fund Comments on the Lead and Copper Rule to SAB
May 4, 2020
Dr. Thomas Armitage, Designated Federal Officer (DFO)
EPA Science Advisory Board (1400R)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460
via email: armitage.thomas@epa.gov
Dear Dr. Armitage,
We provide these comments for consideration by the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) in their review of EPA’s National Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Proposed Lead and Copper Rule Revisions. We urge the SAB to consider aspects of the Proposed Revisions where EPA’s proposal missed the mark in terms of achieving significant public health risk reduction