Find an event in Florida, New Jersey, or where you live.

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.

Clean Water Action fought hard in Annapolis along with members and environmental allies to continue to improve Maryland's water and air quality as well as programs for land preservation. Leading up to and during the 90 day session, our members sent hundreds of letters and emails to elected officials supporting our agenda.

Clean Water Action had two major legislative priorities this year: stormwater and incinerators. We also worked to make sure the budget included adequate funding for state programs.

One of the greatest threats to the quality of our drinking water and health of the Chesapeake Bay is stormwater runoff. Stormwater runoff carries untreated debris, chemicals, sediment and other pollutants into our waterways.

In the final days of the Maryland legislative session, the Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review approved language which makes it easier for localities to grant waivers for development projects from the environmentally protective standards of the Stormwater Management Act of 2007.

The language approval likely killed House Bill 1125, which if enacted threatened to legislatively enact the rollback.

U.S. Congress and State Offices

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 Gerry Connolly (VA, CD 11) and Frank Kratovil (MD, CD 1) for Congress.

For too long, American power plants have been freely polluting our atmosphere with climate-changing carbon dioxide (CO₂) pollution. This is about to change. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is a coalition of 10 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states who are working together to put a price on pollution.

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.)