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Introducing our Connecticut Clean Water Youth Advocates
Students and young people all over the world are standing up to address many significant problems facing our society—and making a big difference! We’re doing the same by launching a club at our school called “Choate for Clean Water.” As juniors in high-school, we became concerned about clean drinking water through our passion of politics and environmental studies. Our club’s focus is to raise awareness and educate within our community about the importance of clean water and how policies at the state and federal level impact our water. Choate for Clean Water hopes to influence students to
Hearing from Our Members
CT Member Survey Results We asked our members in Connecticut what they were concerned about. The results are in and issues like stormwater runoff, plastic pollution and PFAS contamination of drinking water sources around the country, including some private wells in Greenwich were top priorities. Members are also concerned about corporate buy-outs of water companies, water bottling companies getting rights to our water, protecting well water, bacterial contamination from nutrients, agriculture and leaking septic tanks. Members also support that water is part of the public trust and believe that
Empower NJ - Stop Fossil Fuels Press Conference: Statement of Amy Goldsmith, NJ State Director of Clean Water Action
Read a statement by Amy Goldsmith, NJ State Director of Clean Water Action at an Empower NJ press conference releasing a groundbreaking report calling for a fossil fuel moratorium in New Jersey.
Quotes from additional authors of “Fighting Climate Change: The Urgent Case for a Moratorium on all Fossil Fuel Projects in NJ”
Quotes from additional authors of “ Fighting Climate Change: The Urgent Case for a Moratorium on all Fossil Fuel Projects in NJ”
13 Frack Gas Projects Undermine Murphy Clean Energy Plan
The report, FIGHTING Climate Change in NJ: The Urgent Case for a Moratorium on all Fossil Fuel Projects documents the devastating climate impacts if 12 new frack gas projects in New Jersey move forward - in stark contrast to Governor Murphy’s stated commitment and legal requirements to combat global warming and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
