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Clean Water Action in Rhode Island Announces Candidate Endorsements for the 2024 Election
Clean Water Action announced their list of 2024 endorsees for the 2024 election this week. Highlighting the list are 3 endorsements in competitive primary races: Giona Picheco - State House District 14, Kelsey Coletta - State House District 42, and Cherie Cruz - State House District 58. The full list of endorsements is below.
Conversations with Canvassers: Advice from the Experts on Inspiring Change
With Election Day approaching, I spoke to Clean Water staff members with canvassing experience to learn more about their work, and to glean a few tips for how to inspire people in our own lives to take political action.
Talking Lead Service Lines in Malden, Massachusetts
Lead exposure is a problem that America has been facing for decades. The EPA estimates that lead in drinking water can account for 20% of a person's exposure to lead ( Lead and Drinking Water). Currently, there are lead service lines in up to ten million homes across the country. Replacing them comes at a high cost. Each lead service line is owned by both the municipality in which the line resides and the resident’s house the line directly serves.
Recently, I had the chance to talk to members in Malden, MA where 25% of households have lead service lines. Since half of the line is owned by the