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. 

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.

Governor Deval Patrick has asked state health officials to look into a limited ban of bisphenol A, a chemical found in food and drink containers that the state last summer warned parents of young children to avoid.

"We are disappointed that the Governor's starting point for this process does not address the contamination of baby formula from BPA cans as well as other products for which there are safer alternatives," [Lee Ketelsen co-director of Clean Water Action] said in a statement.  "Connecticut has passed into law a phase-out of products with safer alternatives on the market and we urge Massachusetts to match the health protective standard of our neighboring state."

 

 

We are pleased that Governor Patrick is seeking a phase out on bisphenol A (BPA,) a hormone disrupting chemical, in children’s products. However, we are disappointed that the Governor’s starting point for this process does not address the contamination of baby formula from BPA cans as well as other products for which there are safer alternatives.

NATIONAL PARK, N.J. -- After more than two decades of debate and lawsuits, on Monday an Army Corps of Engineers dredge contractor carved away the first loads of silt in a $310 million project to deepen the Delaware River shipping channel.

But minutes after the dredging pipe was scheduled to bite into the river bottom, New Jersey's governor vowed to push on with a fight against the deepening, saying the work "makes no sense economically and it is dangerous environmentally."

Gov. Chris Christie made the remark as Delaware officials conceded that the first section of the dredging project would begin without a state permit.

Supporters of a $310 million Delaware River channel-deepening plan won the latest round in a court fight Wednesday, clearing the way for dredging to start as early as Friday.

A three-judge federal appeals court panel denied a request to block the project until an appeal by a coalition of environmental groups and the State of New Jersey can be heard.

Critics accused the Army Corps of Engineers of violating federal and state environmental laws as well as the corps' own rules in pressing ahead with a proposal to deepen the 102-mile channel to 45 feet from its current 40-foot depth between Camden and the Atlantic Ocean.