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A number of communities are taking action to explore what it would take to break from investor-owned utilities who are failing to meet community reliability, sustainability, and affordability expectations and instead form a new public power utilities. Over two years and across multiple states, the Public Power Project collaboration explored the perspective of campaigners, public officials, staff of existing municipal power utilities, and communities already served by public power. Through landscape analysis, interviews, and focus groups this report shares insights gained about how public power, in its incumbent and emergent forms, can be equitable, just, and democratic.

In This Issue: A Message From Bob Wendelgass & Welcome to our New President/CEO Jeff Carter | Progress in Getting Lead Out of Drinking Water Systems | Ohio Train Wreck Could Be Biden’s Chance to Champion Chemical Safety | Ensuring America’s Water Infrastructure is Equitable, Modernized, and Resilient | Victory! EPA Proposes Protective Wastewater Treatment Standards for Coal Plants in Response to Our Litigation | Congress Votes to Nullify Clean Water Restoration Rule | The Burden of Cleaning up PFAS Shouldn’t Just Fall on Drinking Water Systems and Their Customers | State & Regional News

A lo largo de 2019, nuestros programas defendieron las protecciones esenciales del medio ambiente y de salud, al tiempo que fortalecieron la base de personas que se preocupan por nuestra agua y quieren verla protegida — ahora y para las futuras generaciones. Continuamos sentando las bases para revertir lo peor de los recortes y reversiones extremos propuestos por los contaminadores y sus aliados en el gobierno. Juntos, podemos restaurar el compromiso histórico de nuestra nación con el agua apta para pescar, nadar y beber.