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What a Week - Clean Water Action in Motion
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director - Follow Lynn on Twitter (@LTCWA) It’s been quite a week for our Clean Water, especially for our National Program Team. Here are some of the highlights: Congressional Testimony on Cyanotoxins in Drinking Water: I testified before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy today. You can find my testimony and our press release here. EPA’s Dr. Peter Grevatt talked about 40 years of Safe Drinking Water Act progress and the challenges ahead Celebrating: At our annual event in Washington DC last Friday, we
The Baltimore Bag Bill.
By Will Fadely, Baltimore Program Organizer - Follow Will on Twitter - @TrillChillWill Each week, Clean Water meets with residents and community associations and we continue to hear one overwhelming environmental concern – an abundance of trash in our neighborhoods. Whether we’re in Hampden, Westport, Park Heights, Armistead Gardens, Curtis Bay, or Sharpe-Leadenhall the complaint is the same; trash. The most visible element of this trash: plastic bags. Plastic bags in the trees, gutters, alleys, playgrounds, and waterways. There are too many plastic bags and something needs to be done
Red Herrings and Meat Dresses on the Pennsylvania Turnpike
By Neil Bhaerman, Crew Coordinator, Pittsburgh Phone Canvass - Follow Neil on Twitter (@neilanalien) If you’ve driven the Pennsylvania turnpike, especially the stretch between the state capitol in Harrisburg and the coal and gas rich southwestern counties, you’ve probably seen some eye catching billboards. One, featuring Lady Gaga with a raw steak on her head, asks, “Would you take energy advice from a woman wearing a meat dress?” Another, with Yoko Ono, asks, “Would you take advice from the woman who broke up the Beatles?” A third, with Robert Redford, shouts out: “Demands green living. Flies
Dressing up like farmers...
By Phil Dimotsis, Campaign Organizer - Follow Phil on Twitter (@PhiluptuousD) This Halloween and in weeks to come, polluters and their industry lobbyists are dressing up as “family farmers” attempting to scare up support to stop EPA from protecting clean water. The attire they've donned this season is the rhetoric of the American Farm Bureau and other huge industry front groups. They are saying things like “power grab” or a “regulatory overreach.” that aren't based in any sort of fact. Last time I checked Wikipedia, the definition of a power grab didn’t involve the modest goal to better
Halloween costumes scary in more ways than one
By Amanda Sebert, Consultant and Deema Dabbagh, Environmental Health Intern, Massachusetts The chemicals in these costumes are what's scary... This Halloween, we learned we have been scared for the wrong reasons. Our fears of ghouls and goblins are (probably) fictitious, but our newfound concerns that our costumes and decorations are dangerous threats to our health are only too real. A recent study conducted by HealthyStuff.org and released in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Minnesota by Clean Water Action and our coalitions partners, found elevated levels of toxic chemicals in popular
