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Tell Your Senators: Don't Vote to Weaken the Clean Air Act!

photo of single wind turbine against blue sky

Don't let the Senate stall progress! Tell them we need strong legislation on climate and energy, not attacks on the Clean Air Act.

Your U.S. Senators could be asked to vote soon on an amendment that could take away the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ability to enforce the Clean Air Act. Late last year, EPA announced that global warming emissions represent a danger to public health just like other forms of air pollution, and that the Clean Air Act needs to be put into action to reduce this pollution.

Clean Water Action is working to strengthen and defend our important laws that protect public health and the environment...but we can't do it without your help.

The science is clear: climate change has already begun to devastate our water resources, and we must act now to head off the worst impacts on public health, on water and other natural resources, and on our economy. Some U.S. Senators and industry lobbyists want to undermine the Clean Air Act. This is a dangerous precedent and flies in the face of what science tells us our government needs to do right now.

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  • National
  • energy
  • environmental health
  • global warming
  • Letter to a Decision Maker
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Ripple Effects

Minnesotan’s Stories on our Environment and Health

How do new threats to our water and health impact Minnesotan’s lives and communities? In Ripple Effects, Minnesotans share their personal stories on how global problems such as climate change, toxic chemicals and polluted waters are being experienced locally.

Below is a sample of the stories covered in this project. To find additional stories about a particular issue, click on the issue links below.

 

Vicki HendricksenVicki Hendricksen: Distrust of Drinking Water

Many Minnesotans pour themselves a glass of water from their kitchen faucet without a second thought. However, more and more people are becoming concerned about the safety of their drinking water.

“I don’t trust our water,” states Vicki Hendricksen, a Woodbury mom of three, “we get all our water for drinking and cooking from our fridge because it’s filtered.” When Vicki moved to Woodbury two years ago to be closer to work, she learned the city’s water was contaminated with PFCs— chemicals used in non-stick pans, stain resistant clothing, and thousands of other products. Even though the level of PFCs in Woodbury’s water is considered to be at safe levels according to the state, Vicki has her doubts. “I wonder if the level they set is really acceptable—will this change years later when they learn more?”

Read the full story and see the video here

 

Read more stories about

Toxic Chemicals

Global Climate Change

Water Pollution

Pesticide Contamination

To share your story, email us at mncwa@cleanwater.org.

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  • Minnesota
  • energy
  • environmental health
  • global warming
  • toxics
  • water
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Rocket Fuel in California Drinking Water? Take action now!

bubbly drinking water, photo by Joost NeliseenThe drinking water of between 15 and 20 million Californians is contaminated with perchlorate, a salt that is used as the primary component of solid rocket fuel.

Perchlorate poses a health threat by impacting the thyroid's ability to take up iodide and produce thyroid hormone. Even a short term reduction in thyroid hormone can irreparably impair brain development in fetuses and infants, and impact iodide deficient individuals and those already with thyroid problems.

Despite these serious health impacts, there is no federal drinking water standard for perchlorate thanks to pressure from the White House and polluters such as the Department of Defense.

Take action now: Tell Governor Schwarzenegger that we do not want rocket fuel in our drinking water and that we support lowering the perchlorate public health goal.

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  • California
  • environmental health
  • Letter to a Decision Maker
  • toxics
  • water
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Clean Water Action Campaign Victories in Connecticut

Since 1998, Clean Water Action has won a number of legislative and regulatory victories.

2008

Lead Levels in Children's Products Restricted
Clean Water Action and allies in the Coalition for a Safe & Healthy Connecticut turned back intense opposition from big chemical companies, the toy industry, and dozens of in-state retailers and recently won new legislation to phase out toxic lead and asbestos in children's products.

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  • Connecticut
  • democracy
  • energy
  • environmental health
  • global warming
  • toxics
  • water
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Support legislation to reign in out of control natural gas drilling industry!

In the past two years, the natural gas industry has recklessly endangered the safety of Pennsylvania's waterways. Just this September, thousands of gallons of dangerous fluids, like diesel fuel and hydrochloric acid, have been spilled in multiple incidents in our state. Sadly, that's just the beginning when it comes to kind of accidents that have endangered our environment and our health.

Take action now: Ask your Representative to support critical legislation that would protect Pennsylvania's water from drillers.

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  • Pennsylvania
  • environmental health
  • Letter to a Decision Maker
  • water
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Patrick-Murray Administration Announces Final Approval of Nation-Leading Energy Efficiency Plans

Clean Water Action supports the ramp up of energy efficiency programs to create quality green
jobs, cut energy costs for consumers, and reduce global warming pollution in Massachusetts. See
Governor Deval Patrick's press
release
for more information. 

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  • Massachusetts
  • environmental health
  • toxics
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Earth Day Breakfast of Champions

04/30/2010 - 09:00
04/30/2010 - 10:30
Etc/GMT

Location(s)

Pawtuxet Village, RI
See map: Google Maps

Savethedate_image_1.jpg Come to Clean Water Action and Ocean State Action's Eighth Annual Breakfast of Champions!

  • When: Friday, April 30 2010  9:00am-10:30am 
  • Where: Aspray Boathouse, Pawtuxet Village

At the event, we will celebrate the achievements of Rhode Island’s environmental leaders of 2009, eat a delicious breakfast provided by Meals on Wheels, and enjoy the MC skills of our friend Bob Walsh from the National Education Association of Rhode Island.

This year's Earth Day Champions include:

Contact Name: 
Nicole Poepping, Campaign Organizer
Contact Email: 
npoepping@cleanwater.org
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  • Rhode Island
  • environmental health
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Make manufacturers responsible for electronic waste

Discarded electronics (“e-waste”) is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the industrialized world. Electronic equipment is also one of the largest know sources of heavy metals, like lead and mercury, and toxic pollutants in the waste stream.  In Massachusetts hundreds of thousands of pounds of e-waste is discarded every year.  Much of it winds up in our cities and landfills and that that is recycled costs our cities and towns millions of dollars. Write to your Massachusetts State Representative and ask him/her to pass the Electronic Waste Takeback Bill to require manufacturers to be responsible for collecting and recycling or reusing the electronic waste that they produce.

Related Articles
  • Electronics Take Back Campaign
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  • Massachusetts
  • environmental health
  • Letter to a Decision Maker
  • toxics
  • water
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New Jersey Brochures, Fact Sheets, Power Points, and Resolutions

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  • New Jersey
  • energy
  • environmental health
  • Factsheet
  • global warming
  • toxics
  • water
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Everglades for All

Cover image: Everglades for Al, 2010In March 2010, Clean Water Fund released Everglades for All.

Over 1,500 Florida residents participated in our survey which was intended to get a pulse on how the public and diverse constituency groups feel about ongoing outreach and historic Everglades restoration efforts.

This survey revealed new opportunities for relationship building and will hopefully increase public input on key decisions in Everglades restoration.

Abstract: 

Over 1,500 Florida residents participated in our survey which was intended to get a pulse on how the public and diverse constituency groups feel about ongoing outreach and historic Everglades restoration efforts.

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  • Florida
  • democracy
  • environmental health
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