The Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition will come together on the shores of Lake Superior to reunite with friends, celebrate our successes and develop strategies to achieve our Great Lakes restoration goals for 2010 and beyond.
The conference agenda will address critical issues such as linking Great Lakes restoration to economic recovery, working with the Obama administration to fulfill the $5 billion Great Lakes commitment and securing Congressional funding for on the ground restoration work.
Please register for the Conference by August 19, 2009. After this date a late fee of $40 will be charged. The registration fee for the 2009 Conference is $140.
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We believe in America's ability to innovate and solve big problems. We've proven time and time again we can rise to the occasion and address major environmental challenges without harming the economy. Just think about the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act. Global warming and dirty energy put America's water resources at risk – now is the time to act!
On Earth Day, eighteen Pennsylvania State Senators introduced SB 777, state legislation that would protect rivers, streams, and aquifers (groundwater) that supply our public drinking water. This bill, the Safer Drinking Water Act, will provide special protection to any water that supplies the public with its drinking water.
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.
On May 28th, Miami-Dade County Commissioners will be asked by FPL to approve a hazardous rock-mining project. We are concerned this project will reduce agricultural land, threaten water quality and hamper current Everglades Restoration efforts. We need your voice to be heard!
This bill would remove critical growth management authority by the state's Department of Community Affairs, eliminate transportation concurrency and Development of Regional Impact review in some communities.
School buses emit diesel particulates from their tailpipes and studies show that this polluted air gets trapped inside the bus with our children. Diesel emissions can aggravate asthma, cause lung damage, and other respiratory problems.
Don't let your elected official destroy a deal that protects Florida's economic and water security! The River of Grass Initiative is our only chance to secure necessary land critical to the Everglades and safeguard our water supply. Florida can't afford to pass it up!
Bisphenol A (BPA), a toxic chemical that is the building block of polycarbonate plastic, is widely used for a number of consumer products. More recently, BPA has been found in baby bottles. BPA is also in the epoxy resins used to line cans of baby formula, and other foods, and has been found to leach into food and beverages. The Department of Public Health in Massachusetts has the authority to regulate toxins in children's and household products, but it needs support from the Governor.
Because polystyrene (commonly known as Styrofoam™) is harmful to public health, costly to communities, and a big marine debris and litter problem, Clean Water Action is sponsoring legislation, AB 1358 (Hill, Nava, Brownley), to
Even though the Pequannock River is supposed to receive the highest level of protection in the state, the river is suffering from high temperatures, dead fish and low water levels.
The Chesapeake Bay is in trouble.
The drinking water of between 15 and 20 million Californians is contaminated with perchlorate, a salt that is used as the primary component of solid rocket fuel.

