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West Virginia Chemical Spill – The Only Good News
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director (Follow Lynn on Twitter - @LTCWA) For the last few days, hundreds of thousands of people in West Virginia were miserable. Not only were they concerned about their health in the face of the chemical spill at Freedom Industries, but they did not have water for other daily needs including taking baths and showers or washing clothes. And yet, there was one positive thing about the last six days and part of me wishes it wouldn’t end. Since last Friday, the eyes and ears of the nation have been on tap water and on questions about how we protect our drinking
California: Still Not Protecting Us from Fracking
By Andrew Grinberg, Oil and Gas Program Coordinator January 14 marked the end of California's 60 day public comment period on proposed fracking regulations. Over the last two months Clean Water Action members and supporters have spoken, submitting thousands of comments calling for a halt to fracking in California. Residents across the state have turned out in record numbers to voice their concerns, packing public hearing rooms from Oakland to Santa Maria to Bakersfield to Sacramento to Long Beach. Clearly, the public has something to say about fracking, and clearly Californians don't want it
By the Wayside...Are They Serious?
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director (Follow Lynn on Twitter - @LTCWA) Charleston Gazette reporter Ken Ward Jr. just tweeted that local officials in West Virginia had this to say about planning for chemical accidents and spills: “That's just something that's kind of fallen by the wayside.” This is horrifying in light of hundreds of thousands of people without water for 5 days, businesses unable to open and people’s health threatened in ways no one quite understands. But it’s not that surprising. We take tap water for granted and rely on our Public Water Systems to clean up pollution that
WV Water Unsafe Due to Coal De-Foaming Chemical: How Does Something Like This Happen?
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director (Follow Lynn on Twitter - @LTCWA) The chemical spill in West Virginia, which has resulted in undrinkable and unusable tap water for hundreds of thousands of people, definitely falls into the category of Things We Are Not Doing to Put Drinking Water First. As readers of this blog know, we are committed to identifying activities which put our drinking water at risk and to solving those problems before they get into the treatment plant or in fact into your kitchen sink. Here are some of the questions we have today: Why allow a storage tank containing
Marchers Demand Clean Air and Fair Development
By Will Fadely, Baltimore Organizer The march to the incinerator Energy Answers a dirty Waste-to-Energy Incinerator is being constructed less than 1 Mile from Schools, Parks, Playgrounds, Homes, and Water Bodies of the community of Curtis Bay. Waste-to-Energy (WTE) may sound “green”, but residents of Curtis Bay know that this is nothing but a euphemism for a trash burning incinerator with all its toxic pollution and health hazards. Energy Answers plans to build a new incinerator in Baltimore which leads the nation in air pollution related deaths per capita. A recent report found that, “WTE