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California's Scary Oil and Gas Industry
By Andrew Grinberg, Oil and Gas Program Coordinator Take Action Today! What could be scarier than ghosts, skeletons and witches? How about contaminated drinking water and runaway climate change? The oil industry is one of the spookiest things we've ever encountered. They disguise themselves as the answer to our energy needs, while increasing greenhouse gas emissions and inducing more extreme climate change. What's worse is that Big Oil has hid its practices from the public, lurking in the shadows of loopholes and exemptions, free to pollute with little consequence. Even though the Legislature
Putting Drinking Water First: Protect ALL of our Water
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director Check Out the Map I wonder how long we are going to have to find new ways of saying “all means all” and of proving that protecting our drinking water is a no-brainer. Clean Water Action has worked tirelessly for over ten years to close gaps in Clean Water Act protection which have left the drinking water sources for over 117 million people in our country vulnerable to pollution and destruction. The Clean Water Act is meant to protect ALL of our water, and we know that our drinking water sources are especially precious. We are seeing movement on this
Finally Moving Foward on Coal Ash?
By Michael Kelly, Communications Director A 2011 Coal Ash Spill on Lake Michigan Coal ash is nasty. It’s toxic. It contains mercury and arsenic and lead (just to name a few). It’s polluting our water and has destroyed communities. We produce a lot of it – 140 million tons a year. Yet, there are no federal standards, and the patchwork of weak or non-existent state regulations don’t protect our communities. When it comes to coal ash, (as Earthjustice says) the Earth really does need a good lawyer and our allies at Earthjustice had great news on this week On Tuesday a Federal Judge gave the
The Power Grab That Isn't
By Michael Kelly, Communications Director EPA - protecting our water The following statements are dead wrong
1. “This could be the EPA’s most dramatic power grab ever…” – Steve Doocy, Fox News 2. “The EPA is redefining the meaning of the word water so as to give it, the EPA the ability to regulate ever body of water in the US, whether it is a little stream or whether it is a free standing pond.” – Andrew Napolitano, Fox News
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. These two Fox pundits are referring to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) forthcoming proposal to protect the drinking water for nearlyThink Before You Pink. Clean Water Action on Breast Cancer Awareness
By Madeleine Doggett, Massachusetts Intern One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the U.S. in her lifetime—that is 250,000 women each year. Every year 40,000 women die from breast cancer in the U.S. Breast cancer is an epidemic and the disease needs to be stopped before it starts. October is national breast cancer awareness month, which means pink ribbons as far as the eye can see, but how much are these pink ribbons really helping the cause? Since the national pink ribbon campaign began, have breast cancer rates decreased at all? The first breast cancer ribbon was peach