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Chesapeake Program and Outreach Intern
Clean Water Action is an organization of 1.2 million members working to empower people to take action to protect America's waters, build healthy communities and to make democracy work for all of us. For 36 years Clean Water Action has succeeded in winning some of the nation's most important environmental protections through grassroots organizing, expert policy research and political advocacy focused on holding elected officials accountable to the public.
Clean Water Action is looking for enthusiastic students or recent graduates who are willing to work hard advancing the goals of Clean Water Action in restoring the health of the Chesapeake Bay and the Anacostia River, engaging communities and building grassroots support.
Statement in Support of Funding the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act
Act Now To Fund Jobs That Save Lives
Legislation to create jobs is moving forward in Congress, and environmental health advocates have a great opportunity to significantly increase the funding to reduce diesel emissions. The request for $1 billion would potentially save or generate 19,000 jobs and increase economic output by over $3 billion.
It is a great opportunity to protect public health, curb greenhouse gases and otherwise protect the environment while putting Americans to work and boosting the economy. Please contact your House representative and two Senators to urge them to support $1 billion in the jobs package to reduce diesel emissions today.
January 11, 2010
The Honorable Harry Reid
Senate Majority Leader
522 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510Dear Majority Leader Reid:
We are writing as a broad-based group of environmental, health and industry organizations to urge you to include $1 billion for the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2005 ("DERA") in the anticipated jobs package.
Smart, Clean and Green: A Free Water Workshop Discussion
Presented by Clean Water Fund
Learn how Loudoun County residents can
- Save Money
- Protect Safe, Affordable Drinking Water
- Conserve Virginia’s Natural Resources
using 21st century approaches to water management.
We Can't Wait Any Longer on Coal Ash
We can't wait to act on coal ash! Americans deserve clean energy. We shouldn't be poisoned by dirty coal plants and coal ash, and then be asked to foot the bill. Tell the President and the EPA.
Coal ash is a concentrated toxic by-product of burning coal and is a growing problem across the nation. The EPA and the National Academy of Sciences research show that coal ash is toxic, and threatens human health.
Yet Big Coal has been fighting any change to the status quo, lobbying against these proposed regulations and asking the nation’s energy regulators to charge ratepayers for any coal ash cleanup charges.
Clean Up the Anacostia and Put a Price on Waste
Plastic and paper bags fill up landfills, are incinerated to create unhealthful emissions, add needless costs to public works budgets, pollute our streams and add to neighborhood litter. They are also unnecessary.
The District of Columbia can reduce waste, protect and restore the waters of the District, clean up neighborhoods, beautify community parks and fund Anacostia restoration efforts by enacting B18-150, the Anacostia River Cleanup and Protection Act of 2009.
The proposed law will:
Tell Annapolis: Put the Brakes on the ICC
This week the State Legislature held hearings on House Bill 27 and Senate Bill 753, legislation to defund the Inter-County Connector (ICC). The ICC is an 18.8 mile toll-highway with a price tag of $3 billion plus, almost $200 million per mile and is ranked by national environmental groups as one of the worst projects in the US.
At a time when Maryland faces a $2.5 billion budget shortfall this one mega-project drains fiscal resources from public transit, public health, education and environmental protection. That's why we are working to defund the ICC and shift transportation funds to maintain critical transportation infrastructure and public transit.
Keep the Ban on Uranium Mining in Virginia
In November 2008, the Virginia Coal and Energy Commission voted to move forward on a comprehensive review of the potential impact of uranium mining in Virginia. Earlier last year, during the 2008 Virginia legislative session, the House Rules Committee killed an attempt to fund a related study. These efforts are widely viewed as initial steps towards lifting a ban on uranium mining in Virginia that has been in effect since 1982, after uranium was discovered in an area used for cattle, hay and timber.
Protect the Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay is in trouble.
This is no longer news, but the recent meeting of the Chesapeake Executive Council (a decision-making body that includes the Governors of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, the Mayor of the District of Columbia and others) confirmed that the existing 2010 cleanup deadline will not be met. Participants in that meeting agreed that setting long term deadlines no longer made sense, and that our elected leaders of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed need to take short term actions with near term deadlines to accelerate progress.
Protecting and Restoring the Chesapeake
In 1983, 1987 and 2000, Maryland Governors and their counterparts in Virginia, the District of Columbia and other jurisdictions in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed signed formal agreements that set timelines for cleaning up the Bay. The most recent agreement called for deadlines that were to be met by 2010. That deadline will not be met. Clean Water Action supported the strongest possible version of this latest agreement, understanding that we would continue fighting for the enforcement of the Clean Water Act as the likeliest means restoring the Bay.