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Congress: Protecting Polluters, Not People
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director Another day, another House committee debating whether our regulations that keep our water drinkable, air breathable, and communities healthy are worth it. As early as tomorrow, the powerful House Appropriations Committee will take up consideration of bill that is already full dirty water riders. It's time to tell Congress, "No!" It's getting tiring isn't it? The most anti-environmental Congress uses every chance it gets to go after clean water and clean air programs. This is serious stuff and some Members of Congress are on a mission to challenge
Colorado: Don't FRACK Our Schools
By Erin Adair, Colorado Program Coordinator
Gary Wockner on Taking Action on Fracking
Clean Water Action, along with Sierra Club, Food and Water Watch and a local citizens group, What the Frack?! Arapahoe County co-sponsored a “Don’t FRACK Our Schools”, a public meeting last week in Aurora, CO We wanted to inform the community about newly leased lands to oil and gas companies and discuss what that means. You can see how close leased lands are to the K-12 community schools in the area here. Neighborhoods in the front range of Colorado are being inundated with drilling and fracking. It’sFact, Fiction and the Dirty Water Reality
By Lynn Thorp, National Program Director Thanks to confusing Supreme Court decisions and actions by the last Administration, some water bodies are left without guaranteed Clean Water Act protection. Debate around closing these gaps in protection has always been colored by the influence of polluters’ interests and by the “legalese” nature of the problem. But today’s hearing in the House Transportation and Infrastructure took this to a new level.
Fiction: Rep. Gibbs (R-OH) asserted that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) acknowledge their
Guest Post: Testimony against Trash Incineration in Philadelphia
This is testimony by Brady Russell, Eastern PA Director, on two waste management contracts currently before the Philadelphia City Council. If you are from Philadelphia, please urge the City Council to vote no on both bills. Clean Water Action is here today urging Council to either vote NO on bill number 120393 and 120394 or to urge them to delay the bill by two months. The process by which the Administration came to these contracts is troubling and suggests that there are reasons why the Administration did not want a full and appropriate review by the environmentalists on the Administration’s
Guest Post: Democrats in the Michigan State Senate Could Call the Shots
By Cyndi Roper, Michigan State Director It’s an understatement to say that the Democrats have very little power in Lansing these days. But there are rare exceptions like the one involving HB 5660, which would amend the state’s highly successful container deposit law which was adopted through citizen initiative in 1976. Proponents need three-quarters of each chamber to approve their amendment. Last week, the House voted 91 to 19* to jeopardize nearly four decades of progress in tackling the state’s beverage container litter and recycling challenges. So we’re actually on a mission of hope at the