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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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  • energy
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Events for March and April, 2010

Check out these interesting and exciting events during March and April. Find out how you can learn more about our environment and what you can do to make Minnesota a more environmentally friendly place.

If you or your organization have events you would like to have listed here, please contact Kim LaBo, klabo@cleanwater.org, 612.627.1513.

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Ensuring Progress on Minnesota’s Path to a Clean Energy Future

Clean Energy Clean Water

Take action to protect Minnesota's Nuclear Moratorium

Minnesota's progress on the path towards a clean and renewable energy future will be in danger if we allow more nuclear reactors to be built in our state.

Allowing the construction of new nuclear reactors in Minnesota will lead us off the renewable energy path that has made this state a national leader. Minnesota’s moratorium on the construction of new nuclear reactors was enacted for a good reason – reactors are expensive to build and threaten our precious water resources. Plants being built in Texas and Florida are projected to cost over $17 billion each. The nuclear plants currently operating in Minnesota are allowed to withdraw almost 390 billion gallons of surface and groundwater each year. That’s more than the amount of drinking water allotted to the cities of Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester and Duluth combined!

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  • energy
  • global warming
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Ask Senator Klobuchar to protect children’s health from chemicals

The Health Case for Reforming the Toxic Substances Reform Act

Take Action - Ask Sentator Klobuchar to protect children’s health by reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act.

Parents of newborn babies are excited about all the new things their children will experience in their lifetime. Unfortunately, many of their experiences will be harmful to their health. In fact, most babies are exposed to chemicals that have the capability to cause severe, long-term health problems before they are even born.

In "The Health Case for Reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act", our partners at Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families examine the link between toxic chemical exposure and rising rates of diseases such as cancer, learning and developmental disabilities and reproductive problems.

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  • environmental health
  • Letter to a Decision Maker
  • toxics
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Local Agriculture and Rural Leaders Speak Out for Comprehensive Climate and Energy Legislation

[Minnesota] –Minnesota agricultural producers and rural community leaders today firmly expressed their support for the passage of strong, comprehensive federal climate and clean energy legislation in 2010.

The leaders spoke during a conference call organized by 1Sky Minnesota and Clean Water Action. The call was part of a 1Sky-organized nationwide effort this week to profile the urgency of climate solutions and to shine a spotlight on attempts to weaken the ability to use the Clean Air Act to crack down on dirty coal plants.

Published On: 
02/18/2010 - 15:40
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Pioneer Press: The Chemical Revolt

"As parents’ awareness of potential toxins in the home has grown in recent years, so has their anxiety. Minnesota has helped lead the way to regulate worrisome chemicals, and federal reform may be next."

The article quotes Clean Water Action organizer Kim LaBo, speaking with concerned parents at a recent event in St. Paul. "We're operating in this virtually unregulated environment," she says. " We have 80,000 chemicals put into products, and less than 10 percent have been tested. There is an opportunity coming out that would really change how we do things in the United States. We have a 30-year-old law. It's broken. It's not protecting our health."

Published Date: 
02/07/2010
Byline: 
Maja Beckstrom
News Source: 
The chemical revolt
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  • environmental health
  • toxics
  • water

Get The Facts About Nuclear Power

Find out about the real costs of nuclear power and what it does to our environment. Our factsheets will give you the information you need about why nuclear power is the wrong energy source for Minnesota.

PDF iconWhy we should uphold the nuclear moratorium (pdf, 997 kb).

PDF iconThe true costs of nuclear power. (pdf, 857 kb).

PDF iconThe continuing problem of nuclear waste. (pdf, 724 kb).

PDF iconAdding nuclear plants will be bad for our water. (pdf, 635 kb).

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Building the New Energy Economy

President Obama was right to emphasize the job creation potential and economic stakes for America's leadership on global warming solutions in his State of the Union address this week.

Strategic use of federal stimulus monies is one of the best ways to jump-start the nation's transition to a clean energy economy. Planned investments in high speed rail, new energy efficiency technologies, clean energy start-ups and entrepreneurs can deliver the right combination of near term and longer range benefits.

By re-asserting the imperative for U.S. action and leadership on global warming, the President signaled the urgency and importance of Senate action to complete work on comprehensive energy and global warming legislation begun by the House.

Published On: 
02/03/2010 - 10:57
Contact Name: 
Roger Smith, 860-232-6232
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Toxic Waters

From Minnesota Public Radio

A New York Times series on America's water supply is raising serious concerns about the amount of unregulated chemicals in the country's drinking water and the EPA's outdated monitoring system.

Guests

  • Jane Houlihan: Vice president for research at the Environmental Working Group.
  • Lynn Thorp: National campaign coordinator and senior policy specialist for Clean Water Action.


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Citizens In Action Day In Duluth

01/30/2010 - 10:00
01/30/2010 - 15:30
Etc/GMT

Location(s)

835 W College St
Duluth, MN
See map: Google Maps

Clean Water Action is pleased to serve as a sponsor for the 12th Annual Citizens in Action Workshop. We hope that you will attend and take advantage of this opportunity to learn from a variety of experts and visit with elected leaders including Representative Frank Hornstein.

Learn about:

  • How you can get involved in the political process.
  • Becoming a community activist.
  • How to use the new tools available for communication.

Take part in roundtable discussions about issues that matter to you. Hear and speak with local and state elected officials, including Representative Frank Hornstein.

The workshop is free and open to the public.

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  • democracy
  • energy
  • environmental health
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