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Hit ‘em where it hurts…The Bottom Dollar
By Will Fadely, Baltimore Program Organizer – Follow Will on Twitter (@TrillChillWill ) Since Energy Answer's entrance into Baltimore in 2008, we have been organizing with numerous groups like Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN), Sierra Club, Institute for Local Self Reliance (ILSR), Community Research, Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) and others in order to fight the proposed Energy Answers Incinerator. Especially instrumental was Free Your Voice a group of local students assisted by United Workers. The campaign has focused on encouraging groups contracted to receive energy from the
California's Oil and Gas Injection Mess
By Andrew Grinberg, California Oil and Gas Program Manager - Follow Andrew on Twitter ( @AndrewBGrinberg) This is one of the most outrageous things we’ve heard in a long time. As California faces one of the worst droughts in recorded history, State officials have disclosed that California has allowed the injection of oil and gas wastewater and other contaminated fluids into aquifers that are suitable to be used as drinking water. Oil and gas wastewater is nasty stuff, high in salinity, toxic chemicals and sometimes containing radioactive material. New data just revealed that the wastewater
Colorado Needs Clean Water – Testimony at Wednesday's Bicameral Hearing
By Sara Lu, Colorado Director - Follow our Colorado Team on Twitter (@CleanWaterCO1) Wednesday, the US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a joint Congressional hearing on EPA's proposal to close loopholes in Clean Water Act protections for small streams and wetlands. I was proud to hear Clear Creek County Commissioner Tim Mauck make a compelling case for this overdue proposal to protect clean water. Tim pushed back on many of the myths opponents of this common sense rule have trotted out since it was proposed in March
New Standards Will Protect the Most Vulnerable
Rosanna Esparza, Kern County Oil and Gas Program Organizer Oil and Gas Operations The majority of Californians live in counties with unhealthy air. But nowhere is the air unhealthier than in the San Joaquin Valley. The San Joaquin Valley has never met the federal health standards for smog. Never. In fact, Valley residents face some of the worst smog pollution in the country. If you live in Kern County, home of the largest oil fields in California, the air you breathe may put your health at risk. Residents face a host of pollutants and toxic chemicals from the oil & gas industry, smog-forming
I've got your local impacts for you...right here.
By Michael Kelly, Communications Director - Follow Michael on Twitter (@MichaelEdKelly) The City of Alexandria wants to #ProtectCleanWater Today the House and Senate are getting together for a bicameral hearing about the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposal to protect the drinking water for more than one in three of us. EPA's proposal is strong, common sense, and backed up by science. It supported by mayors from Boston to Austin, legislators from Connecticut to California and Americans from Pittsburgh to Pueblo. So, naturally, Congress is doing everything it can to make sure EPA