Minnesota

Clean Water Action has been in Minnesota since 1982, focusing on finding solutions to health, consumer, environmental and community problems, developing strong, community-based environmental leadership, and working for policies that improve lives and protect water.

Minnesota's Brunch for Better!

October 8, 2023 | Minneapolis, MN

Brunch for Better! Join us IN PERSON at the beautiful Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant on Sunday, October 8th for Clean Water Action’s 2023 Minnesota Celebration.

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Rally outside MN legislature signs "Save lives stop PFAS" "for Amara"

Minnesota Passes the Nation’s Strongest PFAS Regulations

"Today, Minnesota said loud and clear that we refuse to allow another generation of Minnesotans to suffer due to PFAS exposure. Today we put our environment, our families, and our tax dollars first."

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Make a Special Gift to Protect Clean Water in Minnesota

Make a special gift to protect clean water in Minnesota today!

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Profiles in Prevention

Clean Water Action works to ensure access safe, affordable source of drinking water now, and for future generations. Too often that means fighting to hold polluters accountable for cleaning up their mess, but we know that ultimately, the best way to fight pollution is to prevent it at the source. The more pollution we prevent, the less we have to clean up.

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Campaigns

Rethink Disposable Minnesota: Stop Waste Before It Starts

Rethink Disposable in Minnesota

Clean Water Action’s award-winning ReThink Disposable program is expanding to Minnesota! ReThink Disposable works with local jurisdictions, businesses, and consumers of take-out food packaging (almost everyone these days) to inspire a cultural shift away from the single-use disposable items.

Environmental justice signs on fence: Racism Stops Here, Urban Farm not Toxic Harm

Environmental Justice & Equity in Minnesota

Clean Water believes that health and quality of life should not be determined by your zip code, and every community in the state of Minnesota deserves to have their health and environmental safety treated with equity and integrity. We stand in solidarity and working with residents and allies to address decades of systemic injustice, bringing decision making power back to communities, and providing essential and necessary protections against pollution.

Safer Chemicals for Minnesota

Did you know the shampoo, cleaner, or laundry detergent you wash down the drain may be harming your health and the health of our water? Find out how these chemicals are making their way from our products into our bodies and water, discover simple steps you can take to protect your health from toxic chemicals, and see what we're doing to fight for safer chemicals.

Field to Fork

The long term goal of Clean Water Action Minnesota’s Sustainable Feed, Sustainable Food is to reshape this industrialized food system, in relation to livestock production, to implement policies that reflect sustainable practices in order to protect our natural resources including soil health, native landscapes, and clean water.

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Combatting the Lead Problem in Minnesota

Clean Water Action Minnesota is working to advocate for funding and programs to improve lead remediation efforts at all levels. This includes education, advocacy, and community powerbuilding. We are committed to fighting for lead abatement and removal until the problem has been completely eliminated.