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Drinking Water Matters - Solving the Trickle Down Problem
Help Us Protect Drinking Water
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director It's Drinking Water Week – a good time to think about the big picture when it comes to drinking water challenges. One part of the picture that can’t get enough attention is what I call the “Trickle Down” problem. If you’re like most people in the United States, you think drinking water is pretty important. Maybe you know something about your Public Water System or about the chemical and engineering miracle that is performed every minute by modern drinking water treatment plants. You might even know there is a law calledSafe Chemicals, please
Take Action for Safe Chemicals Today!
By Cindy Luppi, New England Director May is here and for many, the top thing on our minds is spring and whether the Celtics can continue their tear in playoffs (Rondo!) or if the Sox will ever turn it around in the Valentine years (and, if you’re not from New England, feel free to insert your own sports teams/metaphors here). For me, Spring always reminds me of my grandmother, Aubine. She was born in early April, over 100 years ago in a small town in northern Maine. She taught my sisters and me many things over the years, but the single over-riding lessonA Step in the Right Direction on Hydraulic Fracturing and Drinking Water
Let's keep diesel out of fracking!
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director As experts on the Safe Drinking Water Act, we weren’t at all thrilled when Congress exempted hydraulic fracturing from the law back in 2005. EPA's draft policy around fracking operations that use diesel addresses the only "exemption in that exemption" and because of that is very important. We’ve seen since then that drinking water impacts are one of the biggest areas of concern with this type of oil and gas drilling and the exemption needs to be reversed. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) exempts hydraulicColoradans welcome “Flat Earth Society” members of Congress
Welcome, Flat Earth Society
By Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director
Groups call for energy reality check, end of excessive taxpayer handouts to Big Oil
Several Colorado groups took members of Congress to task today over their failed energy policies, political rhetoric, and ties to industry. Clean Water Action, Colorado Fair Share Alliance, the Checks and Balances Project and local activists gathered on the steps of the state capitol early this morning in anticipation of a U.S. House Energy and Minerals Subcommittee field hearing on federal oversight of oil and gas fracking operationsThe Dirty Water Caucus at it Again
Who are they protecting?
By Jennifer Peters, National Water Coordinator On Wednesday the House Appropriations Committee passed an amendment to a spending bill that would block the Administration from finishing new Clean Water Act polices to protect streams, lakes, wetlands and other water resources. These new Clean Water Act policies are needed to replace policies enacted by the Bush administration that left many of our nation’s streams and wetlands more vulnerable to pollution. This latest assault on the Clean Water Act was led by Representative Denny Rehberg of Montana (R- At-Large). As we