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Clean Water Currents | Spring 2025
In This Issue: Clean Water Act Protections Under Attack: Urge EPA to Protect Our Water | Defending Our Safeguards | Dismantling Environmental Justice Initiatives Harms Us All | Update From Jeff Carter, President & CEO | State and Regional News: California, Chesapeake Region (Maryland, DC, Virginia), Michigan, Minnesota, New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island), New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Factsheet - Bag the Plastic Bag Ban in Minnesota!
Minnesota plastic bag recycling is estimated to be less than 10%. Clean Water Action is working to remove the plastic bag ban preemption in Minnesota statute, which will return local control around this issue back to where it belongs — with each city and town in Minnesota.
Factsheet - Protecting Our Waters from Plastic Pollution: Boat Shrink-Wrapping in Minnesota
Minnesota leads the nation in boats per capita, and 80,000 to 300,000 of these boats are shrink-wrapped every year over the winter with millions of pounds of plastic used. Clean Water Action is supporting legislation in the 2024 Minnesota Legislature to encourage the collection, recycling, and tracking of boat shrink-wrap plastic.
Factsheet: HB486/SB125 (Superfund NPL Disclosures)
There are 21 sites in Maryland on the Superfund’s National Priorities List: EPA’s list of the most hazardous contaminated sites in the country identified for long-term study and remediation. Contamination from these sites can travel through the air, water, soil, and groundwater to nearby land, threatening neighbors’ health. Preventative measures, like specific home maintenance, equipment, and changed behaviors, can reduce that risk – but only if neighbors know they need to do it. Right now, when someone is buying a home near a Superfund site, that proximity isn't disclosed to them in the same
Letter to EPA: National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper Rule Improvements
Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund emphasize the need to fully replace all lead service lines, service line inventories, and lowering the Action Level for lead in water sampling.