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Clean Water on the Move - April 2024
Welcome to Clean Water on the Move, your monthly update from Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund in New Jersey!
Celebrating the 2nd Anniversary of Pittsburgh’s Plastic Bag Ban!
Two years in and we’re seeing the ban’s positive impacts but more still needs to be done.
Our Testimony on the California State Water Board's New Drinking Water Standard
"Over the last 15 years I’ve seen protecting the public from hexavalent chromium become politicized at the expense of public health. I’ve seen how ratepayers, particularly in low income communities and communities of color are used as pawns with claims that they can’t pay the high costs of treatment. Its been a dark stain on California."
Clean Water Action’s Marta Young Receives “Activist of the Year” Honorable Mention by Upstream!
Marta Young, Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund’s Zero Waste Specialist, received an Honorable Mention for Activist of the Year by Upstream for her efforts to grow the reuse movement in New Jersey
Chrome-6 Standard Set but Falls Short in Protecting Community Health
After seven years, the California State Water Board (SWB) finally set a needed limit for Hexavalent Chromium (chrome-6) in drinking water. Unfortunately, the set maximum limit of 10 μg/L fails to protect human health, being 500 times the Public Health Goal of 0.02 μg/L. Community partners from the Central Coast and Central Valley previously made comments before the SWB urging them to fulfill their duty and protect the health of impacted communities.