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Clean Water Action Calls Federal Drinking Water Limits For PFAS Chemicals Welcome And A Wake-up Call - Aggressive Action is Needed to Protect Drinking Water Sources From Further PFAS Pollution
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today finalized drinking water limits for six of the notorious PFAS chemicals, which are used in a wide variety of products and have been found in drinking water sources nationwide.
2024 Clean Water Action Maryland Legislative Recap
Today is the last day of Maryland’s 2024 legislative session. As Delegates and Senators work until midnight to wrap up their business, our Clean Water priorities have all been resolved. Governor Moore and the leadership of the House and Senate failed to act on climate change and environmental justice this year. Across the environmental movement, advocates are frustrated by what hasn’t passed and appalled by what has. Stay tuned for more as we work with our partners over the coming weeks and months to hold the administration and leadership accountable and lay the groundwork for better outcomes
Earth Month 2024: NINE Ways You Can Celebrate (and Protect Clean Water) Year-round!
The urgency and positive energy created around the original Earth Day (April 22, 1970) helped launch a movement and built momentum that led to the creation of Clean Water Action and passage of the 1972 Clean Water Act and 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act.
Are you ready?
In early 2016 I was out with some colleagues and one of them said, “We elected Reagan twice, Trump could win.” I chuckled and said “OK, boomer” to myself. Welp... As my friend, Neil, recently wrote, everything we thought could happen under a Trump administration has. And then some. So this year I’ve knocked wood. I’ve thrown the salt over my shoulder anytime someone has said “he can’t win, right?”. I’ve gone outside, turned around three times, and spat and cursed every time I’ve slipped up. I’ve even hoped for a bird to poop on my shoulder (it’s a good omen, look it up). And I work for an
The future is unwritten.
Neil Bhaerman is a Clean Water Action member and former Clean Water Action phone canvasser and Communications Manager. He currently directs communications for the Ohio Federation of Teachers. I’m sorry. Four years ago, the week before the 2016 election, I wrote this, a look into a possible future where Donald Trump wins the election. While I can’t guarantee that I‘m accidentally responsible for manifesting the results of the last presidential election, it’s definitely a possibility. Sadly, the future that I imagined wasn’t hyperbolic. If anything it understated the damage that could be done by
