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Clean Water for Ed Markey
By Cindy Luppi, New England Regional Director I'm proud to report this week Clean Water Action endorsed Representative Ed Markey in the United States Senate race in Massachusetts. For decades, Rep. Markey has been a consistent and powerful friend to all who value clean air, clean water and healthy communities. Over Representative Markey's decades of service, he has been at the forefront of every major movement to protect our drinking water, air quality and community health and safety. A short list of his leadership efforts includes leading the drive for a smart response to the climate crisis
Protecting Communities in Fracking Country
By Steve Hvozdovich, Marcellus Campaign Coordinator
For those in the heart of gas country, impacts from natural gas drilling to water and air quality are a daily concern and a threat to their quality of life. The bills introduced in the U.S. Congress today by Representatives Matthew Cartwright (D-PA) and Jared Polish (D-CO) mean so much to these people and show them that their government is concerned about their well being and working to protect them. Their leadership is welcomed.
Too often industry has been given a free pass. The BREATHE and FRESHER Acts close loopholes in the Clean Air ActPowerful 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