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Dandelions for Kids
By Kerry Doyle, NJ Environmental Federation Community Organizer Kerry organizes communities Monday through Friday year-round (in every type of weather) doing door-to-door environmental education and fundraising campaigns. She has been with the organization for seven years – her unrelenting dedication to helping protect the environment and public health is remarkable and has touched the lives of many. It's December, and I just saw lightning. At first, I thought it was the strobing LED peppermint candy Christmas lights, but then I got a text message from a trainee: "Kerry, what do we do when
Join Our #Protect Clean Water Twitter Torrent!
By Jennifer Peters, National Water Campaigns Coordinator For the past decade, Clean Water Action has led the fight to restore pollution protections for small streams, wetlands and other water bodies that risk being poisoned or destroyed by developers, Big Coal or other polluters because of weak Clean Water Act policies adopted by the last Bush Administration. These weak policies were adopted in response to two misguided Supreme Court decisions in 2001 and 2006, which effectively reversed nearly three decades of regulatory history. Prior to these two court decisions, federal agencies asserted
Debunking the Rhetoric
By Joe Emmons, National Program Intern Over the last couple weeks Clean Water Action and our allies have been fighting tooth and nail in the Senate against a massive affront to the Clean Water Act, the Barrasso-Heller Amendment. This Amendment would permanently cut all funding from The Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) and the EPA to classify levels of protection for water sources. Luckily, with your help, we have had a great deal of impact on this Amendment. Voting has been pushed back, allowing us more time to rally support for clean streams, wetlands, and drinking water for all Americans. As
Keep Moratorium on Delaware River Drilling in Place
No Fracking in the Delaware Watershed! By Jenny Vickers, New Jersey Communications Coordinator and Organizer In just a few days the Delaware River Watershed could be opened up to a controversial method of natural gas extraction – hydraulic fracturing – putting the drinking water for 15 million people, including 3 million in New Jersey at risk. On Monday, November 21, the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), consisting of the governors of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, plus Army Corps of Engineers which represents the federal government, will vote on proposed rules that
What We've Been Saying for Twenty Five Years
By Joe Emmons, National Programs Intern As a Canvasser in our San Francisco office, and more recently in DC, I have spoken to thousands of people of all political views from coast to coast. One thing remains the same; everyone knows healthy local economies rely on clean water for recreation, for farming, and most importantly, for drinking. That’s why I wasn't surprised to read in the Washington Post today that clean air and public health protections are, in fact, not bad for our economy. Regrettably, many in Congress are still stuck in this line of thinking. Since the beginning of this
