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Tell the Baltimore City Council and Mayor Scott to invest in Zero Waste!

June 4, 2025 | By Jennifer Kunze

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

West Virginia Chemical Spill – The Only Good News

January 16, 2014 | By Clean Water Action

By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director (Follow Lynn on Twitter - @LTCWA) For the last few days, hundreds of thousands of people in West Virginia were miserable. Not only were they concerned about their health in the face of the chemical spill at Freedom Industries, but they did not have water

California: Still Not Protecting Us from Fracking

January 15, 2014 | By Clean Water Action

By Andrew Grinberg, Oil and Gas Program Coordinator January 14 marked the end of California's 60 day public comment period on proposed fracking regulations. Over the last two months Clean Water Action members and supporters have spoken, submitting thousands of comments calling for a halt to fracking

By the Wayside...Are They Serious?

January 14, 2014 | By Clean Water Action

By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director (Follow Lynn on Twitter - @LTCWA) Charleston Gazette reporter Ken Ward Jr. just tweeted that local officials in West Virginia had this to say about planning for chemical accidents and spills: “That's just something that's kind of fallen by the wayside.”

WV Water Unsafe Due to Coal De-Foaming Chemical: How Does Something Like This Happen?

January 10, 2014 | By Clean Water Action

By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director (Follow Lynn on Twitter - @LTCWA) The chemical spill in West Virginia, which has resulted in undrinkable and unusable tap water for hundreds of thousands of people, definitely falls into the category of Things We Are Not Doing to Put Drinking Water First

Marchers Demand Clean Air and Fair Development

January 8, 2014 | By Clean Water Action

By Will Fadely, Baltimore Organizer The march to the incinerator

Energy Answers a dirty Waste-to-Energy Incinerator is being constructed less than 1 Mile from Schools, Parks, Playgrounds, Homes, and Water Bodies of the community of Curtis Bay. Waste-to-Energy (WTE) may sound “green”, but residents

How about some good news, for a change?

Posted on December 20, 2013

Thanks to Clean Water Action friends and members like you, success on Clean Water Action’s top clean water priorities has never been closer: Restoring protection for small streams and wetlands Controlling polluted runoff Reducing toxic pollution that threatens our drinking water, and more. We’re on

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