Clean Water Action has endorsed the following pro-environment candidates and positions on ballot Proposition measures.

Joan Buchanan For State Assembly District 15

Clean Water Action has endorsed Joan Buchanan because of her commitment to the environmental health and quality of life of District 15. Specifically Joan:

• Will work to protect the Delta's critical environment as a means of ensuring a clean, safe water supply.
• Supports a comprehensive approach to controlling sprawl, including expanding mass transit for residents, encouraging smart growth, and ensuring that climate change policies are part of local planning.
• Will continue her work “greening” our schools through such programs as comprehensive recycling, reducing air pollution by converting school bus fleets to natural gas, and saving energy by installing solar panels.

Clean Water Action urges all of our members in Assembly District 15 to vote. We also ask that you cast your ballot for Joan Buchanan in order to ensure a clean and sustainable environment in which to live, work, and play.

Lois Wolk for State Senate District 5

Clean Water Action believes Lois Wolk is the candidate best qualified to represent Senate District 5 because of her commitment to protecting our precious water resources in the Delta, protecting water quality by addressing dangerous contaminants such as mercury, and addressing the potential effects of climate change on our future. Specifically:

• Lois Wolk has been the voice of the Delta in the State Assembly, authoring major bills on Delta governance, flood protection, and environmental restoration. As a State Senator, she will bring a strong voice representing Delta priorities to the continuing discussion of Delta solutions.
• Lois Wolk authored legislation to establish a cleanup fund to address mercury contamination and has worked to limit mining techniques which increase the concentration of toxic forms of mercury in our water.
• Lois Wolk has worked to ensure that the effects of climate change are considered in all water resource plans, and incorporated into local land use planning efforts.

Clean Water Action urges all of our members in Senate District 5 to vote. We also ask that you cast your ballot for Lois Wolk in order to ensure we have the water resources we will need in the years to come and a clean and sustainable environment in which to live, work, and play.

Re-elect Jerry McNerney for Congress!

Clean Water Action has endorsed Jerry McNerney in Congressional District 11 because of his leadership to ensure a clean, healthy environment:

• Rep. McNerney opposes a peripheral canal, and has worked to ensure funding to restore the San Joaquin River. He supported a bill to provide funding to upgrade water treatment, and has worked to reduce mercury and perchlorate contamination.
• Rep. McNerney introduced legislation to provide grants for innovative water reuse and conservation projects. He was an early sponsor of the Clean Water Restoration Act, which would maintain protections for all of California's waters.
• Rep. McNerney worked to extend the solar energy tax credit and pressed for new fuel efficiency standards for autos. A businessman in the renewable energy field for 20 years, he knows the value of a clean energy future.

Clean Water Action urges all of our members in Congressional District 11 to vote. We also ask that you cast your ballot for Jerry McNerney in order to ensure we have the water resources we will need in the years to come and a clean and sustainable environment in which to live, work, and play.

Doug Linney East Bay Municipal Utilitities District Ward 5

Doug Linney is an 8-year veteran of the EBMUD board, and has been previously endorsed by Clean Water Action. Director Linney has a strong environmental background, and has been a proponent of some of the district's most progressive policies, including the agency's collaboration with Clean Water Action in 2007 to pass SB 220, the Bottled Water Quality Act. Doug Linney's environmental priorities are to

• make reducing our carbon footprint a high priority
• promote the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency at the district
• promote water conservation to the greatest extent economical feasible
• ensure that we protect the environmental integrity of the sources of our water
• fight to keep our water clean and healthy- whether it is in the discharges to the bay or the processes we use to treat our water

State Proposition 2 - Vote Yes

Prop. 2 protects air and water from the impacts of factory farms.

East Bay Parks Measure WW - Vote Yes!

The East Bay Regional Park system is one of the jewels of the Bay Area. It operates 65 parks covering more than 98 thousand acres in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, including significant shoreline and watershed lands.

Measure WW in those counties is a bond measure that would replace a 1988 bond that has been repaid. The property tax required for repayment would remain unchanged. This measure allows the park system to fund needed property acquisition and capital improvements.

Redwood City Measure W - Vote Yes

The Cargill salt pond holdings in Redwood City were not part of the sale that created the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. These holdings, which lie below sea level, are now being considered for development, even though they are zoned as open space.

Measure W allows the voters of Redwood City to decide if and when to allow development of open space, by requiring full environmental review of a project before it comes to a vote, and requiring a 2/3 vote to allow land designated as open space to be developed

Remember: Election Day is November 4th. Vote!