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Clean Water Action’s Fight Against Toxic Chemicals | California Program Update, May 2023

May 23, 2023 | By Clean Water Action California

Welcome to Clean Water Action California’s first program update! Read all about how we’re working towards California’s environmental health and safety. Thank you for your support of this work and for being part of the solution!

California Program Update May 2023 - Clean Water Action's Fight Against Toxic Chemicals

Avonna Starck testifying in MN House Committee on HF372: Products containing PFAS notice required, and rulemaking required (disclosure)

Minnesota Legislative Update: PFAS Prevention Package

January 31, 2023 | By Avonna Starck

"Today I am writing specifically about our advocacy around PFAS chemicals and an emotional personal story that has touched many at the Capitol and across Minnesota."

RI Leads the Way: Good News from the End of the 2022 Legislative Session

June 30, 2022 | By Jed Thorp

Ready for some good news? The 2022 Rhode Island General Assembly wrapped up last week, and we are happy to report that several of Clean Water Action’s priority bills crossed the finish line! T

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Pass State Legislation to Protect PA Kids from Lead

Children all across Pennsylvania are at risk of exposure to lead through paint in old housing units, aging infrastructure leaching lead into our drinking water and soil contamination from demolished industrial sites.

Taking on Toxics (and more!) in the Minnesota Legislature

January 28, 2022 | By Deanna White

Update: The PFAS Prevention Package was introduced in the 2022 legislative session. all but one of the 8 bills made it into the final Environmental Omnibus bill in the House. Like most bills this year, it did not pass by the end of session. However, with the issue of these harmful “forever

Child looking out of a window, drinking water from a glass.

PFAS, the “forever chemicals” made simple

June 26, 2020 | By Elizabeth Saunders

In our work at Clean Water Action we throw around a lot of statistics and chemical names which, if you’re not used to hearing them, all sound pretty much like “ethyl-methyl-bad-stuff.” Sometimes that’s really all you need to know: “there’s something bad there – stay away.”

But one group of