Tell the Baltimore City Council and Mayor Scott to invest in Zero Waste!
For Baltimore City to build an effective and equitable transition away from incinerating our trash by 2030, we need to be investing serious money in Zero Waste infrastructure, now. But Mayor Scott’s proposed budget doesn’t do that - and last week, we learned more. Contact Mayor Scott and your
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Colorado Rivers Illustrate Realities of Extreme Weather Activated by Climate Change
By Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director This was originally published at EcoWatch The river raced. I was standing near the bridge on College Avenue over the Cache la Poudre River in Fort Collins, CO. Due to the torrential rainstorms, the river had peaked about six hours earlier in the middle of
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Climate-changing Pollution Impacts Water, too
By Jonathan A. Scott, Clean Water Action Communications Staff Even more strongly and conclusively than previous research efforts, today's report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) implicates human-caused pollution as the cause of changing temperatures, warming of the oceans and
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“I Feel Like it is 1810 All Over Again"
Submit your comments before midnight! By Jennifer Peters, National Water Campaigns Coordinator Since late May our organizers have been going door to door to talk about a huge problem that many people don’t know about – toxic water pollution from power plants, mostly coal plants. Everybody knows
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We Really Can Put Drinking Water First
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director When I first learned that power plants, especially coal plants, are the #1 discharger of toxic contaminants into surface waters I was actually surprised. When I learned that many of these discharges happen near drinking water intakes, I was intrigued. Then
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Today’s Clean Water Good News from EPA: Why You Should Care
by Jonathan A. Scott, Clean Water Action Communications Staff Today’s good news, in two parts. First: Today, roughly 12 years after pro-polluter court decisions and actions by the Bush Administration weakened critical Clean Water Act protections, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking
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Taking Stock After SB 4: What's next for fracking in California?
By Andrew Grinberg, Oil and Gas Program Coordinator Let's Fix the Fracking Bill Update: Read Senator Pavley's letter to the Senate Journal here. The California Legislature has finally spoken on fracking. After almost 3 years of intense public pressure to address the risky oil and gas extraction
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We All Live Downstream - Clean Water Action Podcast
Welcome to We All Live Downstream: a Clean Water Action Podcast available on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
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