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The Kids are Alright
"Keep Our Water Safe" By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director While the letters our members write to President Obama encouraging him to keep clean water progress moving are great, the pictures their children draw are even better. Water issues are big and complex, and World Water Day is a good moment to look at that very big picture. If our children's drawings collection is any indication, the next generation of the general public will be knowledgeable about water issues. I'm very impressed with their understanding that human and animal waste are connected to water pollution, for example. If
Will Fracking Destroy Colorado's Rivers?
The Colorado River By Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director Originally posted at Huffington Post Oil and gas drilling and fracking pose extraordinary threats to Colorado's Denver metro and Front Range cities including to air quality, water quality in streams and groundwater, wildlife habitat, private property rights, and landscape health. These impacts are generally similar wherever drilling and fracking occurs across the U.S. But what makes drilling and fracking unique in Colorado -- and especially across Colorado's Front Range from Fort Collins to Pueblo -- is its threat to Colorado's
Get the Lead Out (of Lipstick)
By Mia Davis Get the Lead Out Originally published at Crazy, Sexy, Life Dear Cosmetics Industry: Please stop defending lead and other nasty chemicals in your products. Love, Mia A $25 tube of department store lipstick should be safe, right? You might assume it is safer than $2 drugstore brand. Not necessarily … During the busy 2011 holiday season, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly released its new data on 400 popular lipsticks sold in the U.S. These products are contaminated with widely varying levels of lead, including higher amounts than found in earlier studies. Perhaps the
Going After the Chesapeake
By Andy Fellows, Chesapeake Regional Director Rep Goodlatte is putting this at risk On March 8, 2012, Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-VA6) introduced H.R. 4153, a disastrous proposal misnamed the “Chesapeake Bay Program Reauthorization and Improvement Act.” Rep Goodlatte's bill would not only remove important federal oversight for the Chesapeake, like limits on discharging pollutants, but also attempts to undermine President Obama's Executive Order to restore and protect the Bay. This bill needs to be stopped. If enacted, this bill would end all hope of restoration of the Chesapeake, or its
The Ag Connection
By Jennifer Clary, California Policy Associate A report released today by the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California Davis sheds provides the broadest look to date about the sources and solutions of nitrate contamination of groundwater in some of the most heavily farmed areas of California. The report “ Addressing Nitrate in California’s Drinking Water,” a two-year effort funded by the State Water Board with Prop 84 funds, provides a clear look at the impact of agriculture on our drinking water supplies. It’s not good Nitrate is one of the most common groundwater
