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Powerful Women: Lori Ehrlich
By Joel Wool, Clean Energy Organizer MA Residents: Stand with Lori, call for clean power and healthy communities If your children left soot where they walked, left coal-black footprints in the kitchen, would you have the courage to ask what was in their air and water? Would you stand up to terrible power? Lori did. When the soot came up toxic, PG&E, then-owners of the Salem Harbor Power Plant, offered to powerwash Lori’s home in neighboring Marblehead if she’d only keep quiet. Rather than be silent about pollution that was harming her children, “Mother Grizzly” began a long fight to transition
Powerful Women: Pauline Rodrigues
By Joel Wool, Clean Energy Campaign Organizer "The end of coal-burning is near: we need to think about what comes next." Join Pauline in asking Massachusetts to Plan for Transition Five hundred feet from the old Montaup plant in Somerset, minutes from where her husband grew up, Pauline had no idea what was in the air she was breathing every day. But as residents of the South Coast started talking about the impact of coal-burning on their health, she became increasingly concerned. Her own health had taken a turn for the worse. With no history of ailment in her family, Pauline had developed
Conserving Water at Home
Water Conservation in Austin
Is this ‘drought’ or is it…Texas? This is the question that imposes itself, as the drought wears on and as experts warn us to brace for a warmer climate. Drought has become our new norm, and water levels in reservoirs across the state continue to drop. We all need to do our part to create a ‘culture of water conservation’ that will help assure an adequate supply for our children and our state’s ecosystems. We can begin by eliminating barriers to water conservation.
One such barrier can be found in many homeowners associations (HOAs) deed restrictions. These
More Info on Pesticides Please
By Andrew Fellows, Chesapeake Regional Director Today's Baltimore Sun has a fine editorial on legislation that Clean Water Action has been pressing for, the Maryland Pesticide Reporting and Information Act (HB 775). The pesticide database is a long overdue tool for protecting public health and prioritizing future research on chemicals in Maryland's environment. Farm families and others in greater danger of multiple exposures to pesticides will benefit the most, but even tiny amounts of certain chemicals can cause significant effects, so every resident will gain something from this proposal
Protecting Our Kids from Toxic Chemicals – CT is on the Brink of a Big Step
By Guest Writer, Michelle Noehren. This post originally appeared on S afeHealthyCt.org I remember very clearly the day I first learned that the vast majority of chemicals used in consumer products are unregulated by the government. Until that point I believed (as many people mistakenly do) that if I could buy it in a store it must have passed safety testing. Boy was I wrong. Out of the nearly 80,000 synthetic chemicals in commerce, less that 5% have ever undergone testing. Needless to say, that very day I cleared out my shampoo, body lotion and makeup for safer alternatives I found using the