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When No Means Yes
Michigan Policy Director Susan Harley is joined by Clean Water Heroes for the release of our Midterm Legislative Scorecard
By Cyndi Roper, Michigan State Director If you were a Lansing lawmaker with a perfect environmental voting record in 2011, you were voting no. With a state House majority firmly in control of the legislative agenda, the opportunity to support good environmental protections simply didn't happen last year. So the ticket to getting 100% on Clean Water Action’s Midterm Scorecard released today was opposing bad environmental legislation, which is what dominated the RepublicanPhiladelphia Eagles are the leading Green Team
By Colleen Meehan, Pennsylvania Program Organizer
Eagles Fans for PA's Forests!
On December 18 th, Clean Water Action staff served as the Community Partner for the Philadelphia Eagles home game against the New York Jets. The Eagles recognized our work raising public awareness about threats to public health and the importance of our person-to-person approach to public education. So, we wondered, what could we do that would both advance our goals and make a fun, quick way of interacting with Eagles fans on game day. When in doubt, resort to arts and crafts. We wanted to give Eagles fans a chanceWhat's in Store for 2012?
By Lynn Thorp , National Programs Director On the first day back after the New Year, with 2011 and all the resolution making behind us, I wondered what would be in store for our work in 2012. If yesterday’s Washington Post is any indication, maybe we’ll find a renewed understanding of the critical need to protect public health and natural resources. On the front page, above the fold, we learned that our nation’s public water systems and waste water systems need to upgrade and replace our water infrastructure to the tune of over $300 billion. That’s a tough reality to accept, but it’s true. Our
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Colorado's New Fracking Rules
By Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director This piece first appeared on the Huffington Post First, the good: A few weeks ago, the State of Colorado passed the strongest rules in the United States for publicly disclosing what cancer-causing and other types chemicals are used in oil and gas fracking. In a ground-breaking and intense set of negotiations between oil and gas companies and environmentalists, frackers are now forced to publicly disclose when they are fracking and what chemicals they use in fracking. This disclosure gets at two very serious concerns posed by fracking: 1) when fracking
Dandelions for Kids
By Kerry Doyle, NJ Environmental Federation Community Organizer Kerry organizes communities Monday through Friday year-round (in every type of weather) doing door-to-door environmental education and fundraising campaigns. She has been with the organization for seven years – her unrelenting dedication to helping protect the environment and public health is remarkable and has touched the lives of many. It's December, and I just saw lightning. At first, I thought it was the strobing LED peppermint candy Christmas lights, but then I got a text message from a trainee: "Kerry, what do we do when