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Too Toxic Not To Regulate
A 2011 Coal Ash Spill on Lake Michigan
By Jennifer Peters, National Water Campaigns Coordinator Frustrated by the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) continued delay in issuing a final rule to protect the public and environment from toxic coal ash pollution, today a group of environmental organizations filed a lawsuit to force EPA to finish its rule. Coal ash, the byproduct of burning coal to produce electricity, contains a concentrated smorgasbord of nasty metals – including arsenic, lead, mercury, and selenium (just to name a few!). Power plants generate over 140 million tons of coal ashA Tale of Two Washingtons
Can't we end the subsidies?
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director Shortly before the U.S. Senate failed to overturn Big Oil subsidies, President Obama spoke in the Rose Garden about the need to set our sights on a clean energy future and to stop handing billions of dollars a year to oil companies who are making record profits. American oil and gas companies are doing just fine, as evidenced not only by record profits but also by the price people are paying at the pump. There’s absolutely no reason they need handouts from U.S. taxpayers. We applaud the U.S. Senators who voted to put an endGetting Serious about Clean Air
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director
Closer to cleaning our air up
EPA's proposal for controlling industrial carbon pollution from new and modified power plants is a welcome step forward. The Administration is taking common sense steps to protect from climate change and air pollution and to lead the way to a clean energy future. The proposed rules are a significant step – but only a first step – toward heading off the worst impacts of climate change. Remember that many of these impacts are on our water resources. As one Clean Water Action Board member has always said, “Climate change isStorm Water Success!
By Andy Fellows, Chesapeake Regional Director
Protecting the Bay
On Friday afternoon, the Maryland House of Delegates passed House Bill (HB) 987 on a 90-48 vote. This is a great step forward for the campaign to reduce pollution from storm water – the runoff from urban and suburban streets and parking lots. HB 987, sometimes referred to as the Watershed Protection and Restoration Act, will require Maryland’s largest counties and Baltimore City to develop local funding to reduce stormwater pollution. This contaminated runoff, flowing untreated from streets and parking lots, is the fastestThe Kids are Alright
"Keep Our Water Safe"
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director While the letters our members write to President Obama encouraging him to keep clean water progress moving are great, the pictures their children draw are even better. Water issues are big and complex, and World Water Day is a good moment to look at that very big picture. If our children's drawings collection is any indication, the next generation of the general public will be knowledgeable about water issues. I'm very impressed with their understanding that human and animal waste are connected to water pollution, for example. If