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4 Things About Taxes & Clean Water
Here are 4 tips YOU can use to make your clean water giving smarter, more efficient and more impactful. They could even help you save on your taxes!
Environmental and Climate Community Celebrate Historic Confirmation of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, DC – Following the historic confirmation of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the United States Supreme Court, a broad coalition of environmental, climate, and public health advocacy groups jointly celebrate the Senate’s decision.
Curbside Composting in Key City
On Thursday, April 7, the Frederick City Mayor and Board of Aldermen are considering a pilot program for curbside compost! Under this contract, Key City Compost - which is in process of expanding its compost site just north of Frederick City - would partner with the city to pick up and compost food scraps from 800+ homes in two areas of the city, in the the Golden Mile corridor and downtown. Read more here, and check out our testimony below!
Thursday, April 7, 2022
Dear Mayor and Board of Aldermen,
Clean Water Action would like to express our enthusiastic support for the award of RFP 22
Clean Water 50 Stories: Audrey Gerard
For our #CleanWater50 Stories series, Audrey Gerard shares her memories and thoughts on her time working at our Ann Arbor, MI office - the beginning of her career as an activist and advocate - and the lasting impacts and lessons learned.
Water as a Human Right
The Human Right to Water, passed by the legislature in 2012 and signed by Governor Brown, was a great policy idea with almost no teeth. Community members and advocates worked for years to gain recognition for water as a human right, with our first bill, AB 1242 (Ruskin, 2009) vetoed by then-Governor Schwarzenegger and its successor, AB 685 (Eng, 2012) taking the full 2-year session to pass. The legislation was short and to the point:
It is hereby declared to be the established policy of the state that every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate for