Blugirl Art owner/founder and Clean Water Action member Suzanne Meyer Pistorius pledges to donate 15% of online sales at Blugirlart.com to Clean Water Action. Suzanne's vibrant, eye-catching and eco-friendly sensibility is reflected in the site's offerings of brightly renewed and fanciful furniture pieces, dramatic designer fabrics, jewelry and photographic images specially selected for this cause.

Clean Water Action has teamed up with other environmental and conservation groups to launch the new MyGulfAction.org web site to our members and the public.

The site offers visitors a range of actions they can take to help offset the damage caused by BP's Gulf oil spill disaster. All of the action pledges documented by the site are tallied up and presented as "gallons of oil" offset by fossil fuel savings. There is a simple 4-step process, and anyone may participate:

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.

Registration is now open for the 2010 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference, May 4-6, in Washington, D.C.

Clean Water Action is one of more than 165 Conveners and Sponsors of the 2010 Conference, the leading forum for turning ideas into action and building a green economy that creates good jobs, reduces global warming and preserves America's economic and environmental security. You can register now by visiting www.greenjobsconference.org

This year's Conference promises to be an extraordinary event. The Conference features two days of exciting plenaries and more than 100 informative workshops on topics ranging from green manufacturing to environmental and occupational health and safety to business, investment and new markets.

Deadline Extended for 1st Round Voting!

Yesterday Change.org announced they would extend the first round of voting in their "Ideas for Change in America" competition for one more week. We now have until February 25th to make clean, safe water a priority for change in America.

If you have not voted already, please join your fellow Clean Water Action supporters and help push our ideas into the second round of voting. It's easy. It's quick, and, best of all, it's free!

From Minnesota Public Radio

A New York Times series on America's water supply is raising serious concerns about the amount of unregulated chemicals in the country's drinking water and the EPA's outdated monitoring system.

Guests

• Jane Houlihan: Vice president for research at the Environmental Working Group.
• Lynn Thorp: National campaign coordinator and senior policy specialist for Clean Water Action.

A Consumer's Union investigation found Bisphenol A, a hormone-disrupting chemical, in several major food and products some of which were marked "BPA free."

Clean Water Action's Mia Davis is interviewed in this report on the NBC Nightly News.

Learn more about BPA in the report Baby's Toxic Bottle

The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) passed the Clean Water Restoration Act by a party line vote of 12 - 7 on June 18, 2009. The US House, which has yet to take action on legislation to restore the historic protections of the Clean Water Act, is expected to begin the process this fall when the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure will introduce a version similar to that passed by the Senate EPW.

Take Action: Tell your Representative to fix the Clean Water Act.

On September 29, 2009, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson spoke to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco. In her remarks Administrator Jackson declared "updating our country's regulations and laws on chemicals and toxics" to be of the highest priority saying "...understanding the risks posed by chemicals, and doing our utmost to make sure they are safe" was essential to restoring the public's trust in the EPA, to protecting our children, and to growing our economy.