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MN Environmental Community Urges Legislature to Support PFAS Legislation
Today Clean Water Action in partnership with 13 Minnesota environmental, civic, and citizen organizations delivered a letter in support of PFAS prevention legislation to Minnesota state lawmakers.
Response to Governor Murphy’s Climate Speech - Action Today Can Stop Climate Change Tomorrow
We need to walk and chew gum at the same time -- taking steps already primed for tangible action today as we begin to advance a broader suite of harder but essential policies outlined by Governor’s Murphy announcement today.
Groups praise new bill banning toxic PFAS in Massachusetts
BOSTON - A broad coalition of public health, consumer, academic, environmental and community organizations praised the filing of a new bill to ban toxic PFAS. This group further urged lawmakers to cosponsor the bill and called for its swift passage. The proposed Act to Protect Massachusetts Public Health from PFAS, HD 3324 & SD 2053 filed by Rep. Kate Hogan (Stow) and Sen. Julian Cyr (Truro) for the new 2023-24 legislative session, will be one of the nation’s strongest bills to protect the public from PFAS contamination. PFAS are a class of over 12,000 synthetic petrochemicals that help
EPA Investigates Complaints that Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Fails to Do Its Job
"Delegating the authority to enforce the federal Clean Water Act to a state only works if that state actually follows the law. The TCEQ’s failure to do this has exposed Texas waterways and the people and ecosystems that depend on them to enormous risk. It’s time for the EPA to take matters into its own hands."
New Coalition Calls on Governor McKee to Fight Plastic Pollution with a Bottle Bill
A new coalition of state environmental organizations, the Rhode Island Zero Waste Coalition, sent a joint letter to Governor Dan McKee yesterday calling on him to support a container deposit law, or “bottle bill,” to fight plastic pollution and increase recycling in Rhode Island. The letter is in response to the governor’s State of the State remarks regarding his commitment to cleaning up litter.