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A River Runs Gray, Threatening Downstream Water Supplies
By Jennifer Peters, National Water Campaigns Coordinator (Follow Jennifer on Twitter - @EarthAvenger) Update - February 18, 2014: Click here to tell EPA to Put Drinking Water First and Protect Communities from Coal Ash! Nearly 72-hours after a stormwater pipe buried beneath a 27-acre unlined coal ash pond burst, wastewater from the pond is still spilling into the Dan River near the town of Eden, North Carolina. Duke Energy, the pond operator, estimates that between 50,000 to 82,000 tons of coal ash has contaminated the Dan River – a volume of ash that would fill between 20 and 32 Olympic-size
Finally, Coal Ash Rule Out by End of 2014
By Jennifer Peters, National Water Campaign Coordinator (Follow Jennifer on Twitter - @EarthAvenger) Update - February 18, 2014: Click here to tell EPA to Put Drinking Water First and Protect Communities from Coal Ash! After years of delay, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced it will finalize a coal ash disposal rule by December 19, 2014. This is great news and a step in the right direction. It’s also a testament to the power of sustained activism in the court of public opinion and the federal courts. This announcement is the result of a lawsuit settlement brought by public
States Taking the Lead
Click to learn more By Cindy Luppi, New England Regional Director Exciting news: state legislatures are starting to ramp up across the country...and a majority of them, at least 33, are considering bills to regulate toxic chemicals. Clean Water Action is leading the charge on this issue in California, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, and Minnesota. It's inspiring to see momentum spreading nation-wide. You might be asking "why the big push?" or "why now?" There are a number of factors coalescing to focus lawmakers on this issue like never before. One huge reason is large retailers like
Three Weeks Later - What Have We Learned from West Virginia?
By Michael Kelly, Communications Director (Follow Michael on Twitter - @MichaelEdKelly) Three weeks ago nearly 300,000 West Virginians lost their tap water because of a spill at a chemical storage facility less than a mile and half from an intake for the region’s drinking water. Cities and businesses were shut down and people couldn’t use their water for more than five days. Numerous failures led to this disaster, including a lack of state inspection of the facility for the last decade to the lack of health data available on the chemical. The question is, what have we learned? We need stronger
Drought Inspires Call for Long-Term Solutions
It’s said that the worst time to plan for a drought is when you’re in one. Clean Water Action has long been a supporter of locally sustainable and resilient water supplies that can be used to diversify our supply, enhance our communities and reduce reliance on environmentally damaging water diversions.