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Unprecedented Coalition of Water Stakeholders Urges Congress to Fund Critical Water Needs Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Measures will protect access to a critically important tool in fighting the spread of COVID-19: washing your hands SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In a letter to congressional leaders, a diverse coalition of water advocates today called on Congress to fund critical water needs that are impacting Californians amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The letter was addressed to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and U.S. Senators Diane Feinstein and Kamala Harris. The coalition of 59 broad-based organizations, which collectively represents both California frontline communities as well as
Cleaning Up Our Air By Cleaning Transportation
The best way to protect our health from the harms of pollution is to prevent pollution in the first place. That’s why Clean Water Action is so excited to advocate for the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI), which Connecticut joined along with nine other states last year. TCI is a regional effort among northeast states to curb transportation emissions that pose significant health impacts for CT’s residents. This was a major step in the right direction, particularly since every county in CT was given a grade of F for poor air quality according to the 2020 report by the American Lung
Support Small Businesses in Their Time of Need
We love our partners in our ReThink Disposable program. Those businesses have worked hard to eliminate their use of single-use food ware by switching to reusable food ware, and have also helped to educate their customers about why it is so important to move away from our disposable culture. And we’re crushed that many of these businesses, these friends have been deeply impacted by over the past 6 weeks. But there is something we can do -- work hard for them! Most of our partners have had to lay off workers and scale down their operations to make ends meet. You can support Clean Water Action
Fifty Years of Earth Day: Where do we go from here...
It's Earth Week—and we’re dealing with the Covid 19 pandemic. These are unsettling times. The Covid 19 virus has, in a matter of weeks, shut down the global economy, wreaked havoc on human lives, stressed healthcare and essential workers, tested us all as we quarantine, cancel graduations and important celebrations, shift our work online and required people across the globe to stay at home.
What Clean Water Action Means to Me
Earth Day has always had a special meaning for me – a birthday for Earth and a call to action to do what we can to protect it. In 1970, I organized the very first Earth Day event at my school in Oakland. Eschewing the bus, I enlisted a crew of friends in a bike caravan to ride 10 miles to school. Alarmed by the oil spills along the coast, and the poisoning of wildlife and humans from DDT, my classmates and I led a day long teach-in. This was the spark that ignited what has become a lifelong career as an activist. Fast forward 20 years, it seemed only fitting to celebrate the opening of Clean
