Clean Water Action builds grassroots strength in key states and communities to change politics and environmental policy in states, local communities and Washington, DC. We run muscular and effective grassroots campaigns to defeat anti-environment candidates, and support candidates who are committed to protecting our waters, our health, and our future. Our political program is non partisan.
It's clear from the disaster in the Gulf that oil is risky, dirty, and dangerous.
Join Clean Water Action members and supporters in Florida on Saturday, June 26th for a national day of action to help clean up America's energy and to call on President Obama to move us off oil.
Find a Hand Across the Sand event in Florida, New Jersey, or in other parts of the U.S. or around the world.
For local organizing or attendance information in Florida, please contact Kathy Aterno.
Do you believe in magic? Big Oil and their supporters hope so, as they advocate their latest domestic energy source: oil shale.
Oil shale is neither oil nor shale. This finely-grained sedimentary rock - more properly known as organic marlstone - is infused with kerogen, not oil. Kerogen is a dense blend of ancient algae and pond scum, and is an essential ingredient in oil and natural gas. But transforming kerogen to oil requires millennia, coupled with intense heat and crushing geologic pressure. Otherwise the kerogen remains a relatively energy-poor waxy deposit in sedimentary rocks, such as oil shale.
Clean Water Action endorsed 234 candidates for federal and state offices in 2008, with 84 percent of them winning their elections. Below are the winning candidates plus one still too call.
Clean Water Action has endorsed a candidate in both the Presidential race and in Congressional races around the country.
Update (November 7, 2008: Find out which of our endorsed candidates on the state and federal levels won their elections.)