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Meeting a New Leader at EPA
By Bob Wendelgass, President & CEO Yesterday, I was honored to be part of a small group of environmental leaders invited to meet with Gina McCarthy in her first week as the new EPA Administrator. She thanked us for helping her win confirmation. Her nomination was held up for 137 days by conservative Senators opposed to a strong EPA. The thousands of messages from Clean Water Action members and other concerned Americans let our Senators know that we weren’t going to stand for their obstruction of an incredibly qualified public servant like Gina McCarthy. She laid out three issues as her
Isn't Water A Natural Resource?
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director Clean Water Action signed a letter to the leadership of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee opposing yet another anti-regulatory bill expected to be considered by the Committee today. We’ve signed a lot of these letters since 2010, but this one is particularly important. The “Protecting States’ Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act” could deal a sprawling and damaging blow to our ability to protect our public lands from negative impacts of oil and gas extraction. The bill is obviously an attempt to undercut the Department of Interior’s
Federal Chemical Reform - Finally?
By Cindy Luppi, New England Regional Director Exciting news! For the first time in a generation, we might have finally gained meaningful momentum in the fight to repair our outdated federal laws about chemical safety. Today the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is holding a marathon hearing on updating the laws that regulate the chemicals in the things that we use every day. We're particularly thrilled that Dorothy Felix, a leader from Mossville, Louisiana, will be testifying about the devastation her community has suffered from the pollution emitted by a cluster of chemical plants
Bringing Green Justice Home to Our Communities
In Massachusetts, Clean Water Action's canvass is rolling out a new energy program we helped create. Using targeted outreach and improved financial incentives, this program will expand home weatherization to families who have previously faced barriers to making their homes more efficient. Building a Brighter Day, a report from our partners at Community Labor United, shows the astounding benefits of our combined advocacy: if fully implemented, the program could weatherize 2200 homes, avert 84,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions, save $59 million for Massachusetts residents and continue
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
