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Clean Water Waves | In The News, January 2023
Our work to protect clean water across the country often makes the news. Clean Water Waves highlights recent articles featuring our staff speaking on their areas of activism and expertise. In This Issue: PFAS in MN, Polluter Pay for MI, Recycling in PA, and a Bottle Bill for RI.
Minnesota Legislative Update: PFAS Prevention Package
"Today I am writing specifically about our advocacy around PFAS chemicals and an emotional personal story that has touched many at the Capitol and across Minnesota."
"Nobody deserves to go through what I did. We all deserve clean water and good health."
"It is unacceptable to allow these forever chemicals to destroy not only our city, but our environment and our planet as well. If PFAS chemicals are even remotely to blame for my illness then I fear for the other people, families, and children living in the areas where they are at risk of exposure."
New Coalition Calls on Governor McKee to Fight Plastic Pollution with a Bottle Bill
A new coalition of state environmental organizations, the Rhode Island Zero Waste Coalition, sent a joint letter to Governor Dan McKee yesterday calling on him to support a container deposit law, or “bottle bill,” to fight plastic pollution and increase recycling in Rhode Island. The letter is in response to the governor’s State of the State remarks regarding his commitment to cleaning up litter.
New Year, New Rhode Island Legislative Session!
The 2023 Rhode Island legislative session has started! Clean Water Action and our allies had some big environmental wins in 2022, and we’ve spent the “off-season” preparing to hit the ground running. Here are our 2023 legislative priorities: