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Clean Water Fund Awarded EPA Grant to Fight Lead in Drinking Water
BOSTON, MA – Clean Water Fund announces an award from the EPA to fund an expansion of their work partnering with local community groups to identify lead service lines, help impacted residents access lead service line replacement programs, and educate community members about how to mitigate exposure to lead in drinking water.
EPA Directs States to Use Water Pollution Permits to Control PFAS
The Clean Water Act has many tools that can—and should—be used to keep these toxic fluorinated “forever chemicals” out of our water. EPA’s memo makes it clear that states can use their existing water program authorities to address PFAS in wastewater discharges immediately.
Collaborating to Protect our Drinking Water - Let’s Put the Clean Water Act to Work
The Source Water Collaborative brings everyone from water utility associations to environmental organizations to planning professionals together to elevate the need to protect drinking water sources in decisions at the local, state and federal levels.
Big Win for Clean Water!
Clean Water Action Leads Efforts to Pass Landmark PFAS Legislation
What it Takes to Win: The Massachusetts Flame Retardants Bill Story
A tragic beginning
The campaign to ban toxic flame retardants in Massachusetts started in January 2013 when Senator Cynthia Stone Creem filed the first version of the bill to ban toxic flame retardants. We knew we needed a strong coalition for it to become law. So when environmental groups and firefighter unions across the country were teaming up to co-host local “Give Toxics the Boot”events in early 2014, we signed up. The events included press conferences with firefighters’ boots lined up on statehouse steps to represent those who died “with their boots off”—from occupational illness—and a