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Our Water is not Their Sewer!
By Bob Wendelgass, President & CEO I’ve worked in advocacy and politics for a long time and have fought to protect our health and environment from dirty, polluting industries and I thought I had seen it all. But even I was blown away when I saw the extent of the toxic pollution that power plants have spewed into our water for decades. The facts in our report on coal plants across the country, Closing the Floodgates, are astonishing. For the past thirty years, power plants have gotten special treatment that allows them to dump billions of pounds of toxic chemicals into our nation’s waters. And
No Excuse for Water Pollution
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director I have worked on water issues for a long time, so I don’t expect surprises about pollution sources. But that’s what I got when we began to see the facts on water pollution from our nation’s power plants, especially coal plants. It turns out that power plants are the largest point source of water pollution and that they are responsible for over half the toxic discharges to water. Today, we worked with allies to release Closing the Floodgates: How the Coal Industry Is Poisoning Our Water and How We Can Stop It, a report which outlines this problem and
Can We #ProtectCleanWater?
By Angelique Giraud, Florida Energy Community Organizer Advocates from all over the nation gathered together July 10th in Washington, DC to speak out in support of clean water. For the first time in over 30 years, we have the chance to make power plants, particularly coal-fired plants, clean up their toxic trash. Power plants contribute more than half of all of the toxic pollution in our water – billions of pounds every year. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finally proposed long overdue standards to restrict this pollution and #protectcleanwater. EPA can ensure that our children
Fighting Power Plant Pollution and Coal Ash in Colorado!
By Alisa Lapp, Colorado Program Assistant Touring the Valmont Plant Since the end of April our community organizers have been raising awareness about a major problem for our water. We’ve been motivating Coloradans to make their voices heard by writing public comment to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) about toxic power plant water pollution. Power plants contribute more than 50% of the pollution in our water every year and coal plants are the worst offenders. There are 13 coal-fired power plants in Colorado, including Xcel Energy’s Valmont Power Plant in Boulder. It’s no surprise
From Missouri to DC to #ProtectCleanWater
Patricia Shuba Speaking at the Power Plant Water Pollution Press Event By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director This morning I met Patricia Schuba from the Labadie Environmental Organization in Missouri. Patricia came to Washington, DC today not to see the monuments and museums but to make sure the Clean Water Act is put to work to protect her home, her family and her neighbors. Patricia came to Washington to speak at a press event, to testify at an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hearing and to attend a rally. Patricia is speaking out and she can't do it on her own. You can join