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Climate-changing Pollution Impacts Water, too
By Jonathan A. Scott, Clean Water Action Communications Staff Even more strongly and conclusively than previous research efforts, today's report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) implicates human-caused pollution as the cause of changing temperatures, warming of the oceans and melting glaciers. Reducing this pollution will have multiple benefits beyond reducing climate change's many harmful impacts. These include benefits for health and benefits for those countries and economies best positioned to capitalize on the savings, business opportunities and jobs associated with
“I Feel Like it is 1810 All Over Again"
Submit your comments before midnight! By Jennifer Peters, National Water Campaigns Coordinator Since late May our organizers have been going door to door to talk about a huge problem that many people don’t know about – toxic water pollution from power plants, mostly coal plants. Everybody knows that coal-fired power plants foul our air, but few people know the alarming fact that power plant utilities dump more lead, arsenic, mercury and other harmful pollutants into our water than the top nine other polluting industries combined. That amounts to an estimated 5.5 billion pounds of nasty
We Really Can Put Drinking Water First
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director When I first learned that power plants, especially coal plants, are the #1 discharger of toxic contaminants into surface waters I was actually surprised. When I learned that many of these discharges happen near drinking water intakes, I was intrigued. Then I noticed that some of the most common contaminants in power plant water pollution are subjects of concern when it comes to Public Water System operations and drinking water regulation. So I wrote a short whitepaper to make the connections. You can read Put Drinking Water First: Time to Curb Power
Today’s Clean Water Good News from EPA: Why You Should Care
by Jonathan A. Scott, Clean Water Action Communications Staff Today’s good news, in two parts. First: Today, roughly 12 years after pro-polluter court decisions and actions by the Bush Administration weakened critical Clean Water Act protections, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking important steps to clarify what water resources qualify for federal protections. Once finalized, this action will close protection gaps that have left drinking water sources for 117 million Americans vulnerable to contamination and destruction. This action follows more than a decade of campaigning by
Taking Stock After SB 4: What's next for fracking in California?
By Andrew Grinberg, Oil and Gas Program Coordinator Let's Fix the Fracking Bill Update: Read Senator Pavley's letter to the Senate Journal here. The California Legislature has finally spoken on fracking. After almost 3 years of intense public pressure to address the risky oil and gas extraction process, SB 4 (Pavley) will put in place the first ever rules in California for fracking and acidizing. While the bill will put in place numerous important safeguards, last minute, industry-friendly amendments were forced into the bill and threaten to undermine the intent of the law: to take the first