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Americans Agree: #CleanWaterRules
By Jennifer Peters - National Water Programs Director - Follow Jennifer on Twitter (@EarthAvenger) Nothing is more fundamental than clean water. Though many of us take it for granted until it dries up or becomes too polluted to use. Not only do we all depend on water for drinking, cooking, and cleaning, but water is the major economic driver in every sector in our economy. From farming to manufacturing to tourism, I bet you can’t think of a business that does not depend on clean water to thrive. Clean water is needed by everyone everywhere, all the time. Despite our nation’s dependence on
To Protect Public Health, Put Drinking Water First, not Polluter Profits
By Jennifer Peters, National Water Programs Director - Follow Jennifer on Twitter (@EarthAvenger) Stop Toxic Power Plant Water Pollution! It’s National Public Health Week, which has me thinking about the importance of clean water. Nothing is more basic to protecting public health than access to clean and safe water for drinking, sanitation, and cooking. But too often the streams, rivers or lakes that are sources of drinking water are also used by polluting industries upstream to dispose of their waste. This was an even bigger problem before Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, the law
#Act4CleanWater - Celebrate #Earth Week at Clean Water Conference!
By Jenny Vickers, NJ Communications Manager, Clean Water Action. Follow on Twitter @CleanWaterNJ Take action for clean water during #EarthWeek! Join us at Clean Water Action’s 29 th annual conference on Saturday, April 25, 9:00 am-5:00 pm, at Brookdale Community College's Student Learning Center in Lincroft, NJ. The event features prominent environmental leaders, scientists and policy makers discussing key issues such as Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Banning Frack Waste, Stopping Bad Oil & Gas Pipelines, Sustainable Water Infrastructure, as well as Protecting the Pinelands & Other Critical
Where have you been, Ms. Fiorina?
By Jennifer Clary, California Waters Program Manager In an April 7 blog post for Time Magazine, Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and former candidate for California governor, made the wildly inaccurate claim that “overzealous liberal environmentalists” are responsible for California’s drought. Ms. Fiorina airs out the tired old myths propagated by the thankfully dwindling water buffaloes of the state -
Environmental policies are sending water to the ocean that should be used to support farms and farmers; no new storage has been built in half a century; this is a "man-made" drought
A Pleasant Surprise in the Field
When my fellow canvassers hear that I’ve been knocking on doors for Clean Water Action for 4 years, they often say, “so nothing catches you by surprise.” That couldn’t be further from the truth. Last night, we were working one of those chilly, drizzly shifts where the materials on your clipboard are soggy and people are reluctant to stand out on the steps and talk about the environment. At about 7:30 a very nice man invited me inside for a pleasant conversation about our priority pieces of legislation: mercury recycling and cesspool phase-out. His 9-year-old daughter was standing nearby