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American Water Works Association and Clean Water Action applaud EPA’s final Steam Electric Power Generating Effluent Guidelines
The American Water Works Association (AWWA) and Clean Water Action today applauded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new power plant pollution limits designed to protect drinking water supplies.
New Power Plant Pollution Limits Will Protect Drinking Water and Water Quality
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today finalized a package of new pollution standards for power plants that will significantly reduce water, air and climate pollution. As part of this package, EPA finalized stringent Clean Water Act standards to limits toxic water pollution from coal-fired power plants.
Earth Month 2024: NINE Ways You Can Celebrate (and Protect Clean Water) Year-round!
The urgency and positive energy created around the original Earth Day (April 22, 1970) helped launch a movement and built momentum that led to the creation of Clean Water Action and passage of the 1972 Clean Water Act and 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act.
Freighter Fails in Great Lakes Highlight Line 5 Risks
After the devastating collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Michiganders are not ruling out a similar tragedy in the Great Lakes. After obtaining a public records request from the U.S. Coast Guard, a new report in the Detroit News discovered that Great Lakes freighters lost control or power more than 200 times between 2012 and May 2022, and crashed with stationary objects more than 60 times over the same decade. While the News notes that a freighter crash similar to the Key Bridge tragedy is unlikely with the Mackinac Bridge, there is a profound risk of damaging Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac.
EPA Rolls Out Rule to Address Worst-Case Chemical Disasters, Impacting Thousands of Facilities
This is a regulatory response to a lawsuit Clean Water Action was part of to force EPA to have a response plan for potential spills in hazardous chemical facilities. The new rule is stronger than expected from the EPA proposal some months ago and will lead to thousands of facilities and communities having greater protection from potential spills in extreme weather events.