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Clean Water Waves | In The News, Summer 2022
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.
People. Action. Justice. New Jersey residents demand healthy communities and WIN!
Residents, community organizations, and small businesses banded together to defeat Amazon. Clean Water Action joined the Good Jobs Clean Air (GJCA) NJ coalition and organized for 10 months to fight against a secret deal between Amazon and the Port Authority that would have allowed Amazon to open an Air Hub at Newark Airport without considering impacts on the surrounding communities. The Amazon Air Hub would have increased truck and airplane traffic and the pollution that comes along with it, in communities where public health is already disproportionately threatened. And despite Amazon’s job
The climate friendly solution to hot summer days in Boston
Massachusetts residents struggled with extreme heat earlier this month during a week-long heatwave that drove temperatures up to 98 degrees. In Dorchester, where Betsy Drinan lives, days can get up to 15 degrees hotter compared to nearby rural areas. For 20 years, Betsy has lived on the third floor of a triple-decker, struggling with the heat at home. She said it was the extreme temperatures in the summer that drove her to switch to heat pumps this spring. Before making the switch, Betsy cooled her home with A/C units that didn’t work too well. She decided it was time to invest in an upgraded
Clean Water 50 Stories: Andrew Fellows
Meet Andrew Fellows! Andy is a leader, a strategist, an organizer, and activist, and has a long history with Clean Water Action.
Connecticut Celebrates Clean Water Action's 50th Anniversary
On July 20th, members of the Clean Water Action community joined together to celebrate the organization’s 50th anniversary. This event, held virtually, had an array of guest speakers reflecting on Clean Water Action’s past victories, memories, and what is to come for the organization’s future. Joining us from Japan, Roger Smith, former Connecticut State Director, was one of the event’s most anticipated guests. Smith, who has been investigating tsunami recovery in the impacted town of Matsushima, Japan, discussed how his work at Clean Water Action led him to his current environmental work in