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Ken Geiser: Celebrating the Work of A Champion
Ken Geiser (second from right) and Richard Clapp (second from left) receive Lifetime Achievement awards presented by Clean Water Action Massachusetts Director, Elizabeth Saunders, and Joel Tickner, Professor of Work Environment at UMass Lowell. By Elizabeth Saunders, Massachusetts Director This weekend, Clean Water Action honored Ken Geiser, Co-Director of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at UMass Lowell on the occasion of his retirement. Ken was a primary author of the Toxics Use Reduction Act (TURA), which was enacted by the Massachusetts legislature in 1989 and made
Why Did Hickenlooper and Urbina Kill the Fracking Healthcare Bill?
By Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director This originally appeared in Huffington Post. On Thursday evening, April 11 th, Colorado State Rep. Joann Ginal's (D-Fort Collins) House Bill 1275 was heard, and died, in committee in the Colorado State Legislature. Rep Ginal's bill asked and proposed to answer a very honest and simple question, "Are people living near oil and gas drilling and fracking getting sicker than people who don't?" And, the bill would have provided that information to the public in a short timeframe. Our organization, Clean Water Action, organizes door-to-door in the Denver
Senators Urging Against Clean Water Progress: Wrong on All Counts!
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director Let EPA Get the Job Done! Yesterday's letter to the Environmental Protection Agency's Acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe from over two dozen Republican Senators urges EPA to perpetuate the stalemate which is leaving drinking water sources without Clean Water Act protection. We hope this letter has the opposite effect, which is to remind the Administration that we can't face today's clean water challenges with this kind of vulnerability affecting so many of our precious water resources. The science is behind this. Despite this letter's claims, the
Powerful Women: Rachel Carson & Silent Spring Institute
By Cindy Luppi, New England Regional Director Did you know that breast cancer rates in Massachusetts are among the highest in the nation? And that the rates on the Cape and Islands are the highest in Massachusetts? The scientists at Silent Spring Institute, founded in 1994, are working to solve the intricate puzzle of environmental links to this breast cancer epidemic. Their landmark research has ranged from studying the toxic contamination of Cape Cod well water to examination of toxic flame retardants building up in indoor household dust, and beyond. The top five reasons we highlight the
There's Something in the Air
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director It's the sound of our government implementing the clean air and clean water laws we work so hard to pass. Today's announcement of new air pollution controls for cars and gasoline production are welcome news for people struggling with asthma, especially in areas where the health threat from smog and other air pollution is high. The new program is needed because we still haven't met our clean air goals for soot, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides. That sounds complicated, but it's not. It means we can get $6 billion in
