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MN Environmental Community Urges Legislature to Support PFAS Legislation
Today Clean Water Action in partnership with 13 Minnesota environmental, civic, and citizen organizations delivered a letter in support of PFAS prevention legislation to Minnesota state lawmakers.
Ohio Train Wreck Could Be Biden’s Chance to Champion Chemical Safety
The chemical train derailment in East Palestine OH illuminates numerous problems around how we protect communities from chemical hazards.
Clean Water Virginia Legislative Priorities 2023
Clean Water Action is working with our allies to successfully help protect the Chesapeake Bay, open space, farmland, and historic sites before state senate and house elections in the fall. In addition to focusing on ensuring green infrastructure funding and reducing plastic pollution, here are some of the organization’s top priorities: Stormwater Local Assistance Fund (SLAF), Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), and Reducing Plastic Pollution.
8 Bills to Support for a Healthier, More Just Massachusetts
It’s the start of a new legislative session in Massachusetts, which means it’s time for the biannual scramble to secure co-sponsors for our priority bills. This year, Clean Water Action is working to line up support for our Healthy Futures for All legislative package to protect residents, particularly children, from exposure to health-threatening toxics and pollution.
Groups praise new bill banning toxic PFAS in Massachusetts
BOSTON - A broad coalition of public health, consumer, academic, environmental and community organizations praised the filing of a new bill to ban toxic PFAS. This group further urged lawmakers to cosponsor the bill and called for its swift passage. The proposed Act to Protect Massachusetts Public Health from PFAS, HD 3324 & SD 2053 filed by Rep. Kate Hogan (Stow) and Sen. Julian Cyr (Truro) for the new 2023-24 legislative session, will be one of the nation’s strongest bills to protect the public from PFAS contamination. PFAS are a class of over 12,000 synthetic petrochemicals that help