EPA | Clean Water Action

Denver Water’s Plan to Get the Lead Out While Protecting Our Watersheds

October 4, 2019 | By Jennifer Peters

Denver Water’s Lead Reduction Program Plan is the culmination of a rigorous, 18-month-long stakeholder process that included federal, state, and local agencies, wastewater and drinking water utilities, and environmental and conservation organizations. Clean Water Action staff attended numerous stakeholder meetings and submitted a letter of support for Denver Water’s July 2019 draft plan. We strongly support the revised plan and are pleased that Denver Water incorporated many of our recommendations into its final proposal to EPA.

Corroded pipe with lead service fittings. Credit: Mike Thomas / Creative Commons

Trump’s polluter handout threatens your right to clean water – comment by April 15th!

April 12, 2019 | By Jennifer Peters

On April 10th, Trump issued an Executive Order that limits states’ ability to protect their own water resources from harmful pipelines and other dirty energy projects.

Reducing Stormwater Runoff in the Chesapeake Bay

August 8, 2016 | By Abigail Pearse

Stormwater runoff is one of the leading contributors to pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. After big storms, the water carries whatever is on the ground and in the streets into our waterways. Impervious surfaces, such as the roads and pavement that cover densely populated areas, don’t allow rain to seep into the ground, causing more polluted stormwater to enter the Bay.

Green infrastructure projects like this rain garden in East Baltimore hold rainwater in place until it can soak into the ground and reduce the total volume of water entering the storm drain system. Photo by Jennifer Kunze.

Large group of people as seen from above. Credit: Stockernumber2 / iStock

Making a Career in Environmental Protection: from Canvassing to Chief of Staff

June 21, 2016 | By Tirza Wahrman, Esq.

Lisa Plevin, Chief of Staff for EPA Region 2, is one of us – a former door to door canvasser and community organizer of Clean Water Action. Lisa is essentially a Jersey Girl, having moved to New Jersey at age six, graduated from Stockton College in 1981 and immediately started her environmental career.

From Portland, Oregon to Washington DC: Clean Air and Ports that’s the Ticket

February 23, 2016 | By Amy Goldsmith

By Amy Goldsmith, State Director, Clean Water Action. Follow on Twitter.

Solid as a rock Rooted like a tree I am here Standing strong In my rightful place

This is the song that was sung by community organizers from across the country to kick off the Moving Forward Network’s (MFN) annual meeting in

Pumpjacks with a methane flare in the background. Photo credit: Leonid Ikan / Shutterstock

Attempts to Soften Scientists’ Critiques of EPA’s Study Come Up Short

February 22, 2016 | By John Noël

The oil and gas industry inside game is alive and well in 2016. The Science Advisory Board (SAB) Panel is out again with another draft of its report on EPA’s fracking and drinking water Assessment.