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Clean Water 50 Stories: David Foster
In honor of Clean Water Action's 50th birthday, we are lifting up voices and stories in the Clean Water movement through #CleanWater50Stories. Meet David Foster, who spent 26 years with Clean Water Action before recently retiring as Texas State Director!
Our Clean Water Priorities for the 2023 Texas Legislative Session
For roughly five months in odd-numbered years, elected officials and advocates across Texas are busy at work passing legislation through the House and Senate and to the Governor's desk. Here are the top efforts and issues that Clean Water Action is prioritizing during the current Texas legislative session that ends on May 29th - and how you can take action.
Meet our new Texas Director, Becky Smith!
Welcome to our new Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund Texas State Director, Becky Smith! Becky is taking the helm in the Lone Star State after our long time Texas State Director David Foster transitioned into his well-earned retirement at the end of 2021 after 26 years serving the people and natural environment of Texas. Becky brings a significant amount of experience in grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, and fundraising. While new to the role of Texas State Director, she is no stranger to Texas Clean Water. Becky began her career in environmental advocacy and action in 2001 as a
Clean Water 50 Stories: Todd Speight
Todd brought a lot of great ideas and energy to Clean Water Action's canvass programs. He built one of our largest and most successful field operations in Austin, TX. Todd is known for his vision and his ability to wordsmith great ideas into a few simple words.
Clean Water Candidates Won Big in Texas
Thanks to clean water voters who came out in force for last week's elections, most of the pro-environment candidates endorsed by Clean Water Action here in Texas prevailed, and our endorsed candidates who lost, did so by very narrow margins. At the top of our ticket, Beto O'Rourke helped energize voters in a historic way, received over 4 million votes and fell just a couple percentage points short. This gives us great hope for 2020, showing that Texas can make an impact when control of the White House and both houses of Congress will be in play. Endorsed candidates for other offices fared