Check out these interesting and exciting events during March and April. Find out how you can learn more about our environment and what you can do to make Minnesota a more environmentally friendly place.
If you or your organization have events you would like to have listed here, please contact Kim LaBo, klabo@cleanwater.org, 612.627.1513.
We are now in the second round of voting and we need you to help make sure that our idea - Look "Upstream" to Protect Water and Health: Prevent Pollution and Health Harm Before Toxics Enter Our Water - gets into the final list of ideas.
Click here to find out more and vote!
Please vote today and tell all of your friends, families and co-workers to vote as well! Voting ends March 11, 2010. Thank you!More Information About this Campaign:
"We all live downstream" is more than just a slogan or a blog title, it is the truth of our drinking and sporting waters in America.
You've seen the reports on "gender-bending" fish in waterways around the country, and pharmaceutical drugs detected in drinking water sources. And the thousands of water pollution or safe drinking water violations that go unpunished each year.
For every "regulated" contaminant there are tens of thousands for which safety standards have yet to be set. Under-funded government agencies are years behind in meeting environmental cleanup, research and health protection targets.
We need to move away from our system of after-the-fact treatment and clean-up, which requires the conclusive proof of harm only us human lab rats can provide, before action is even considered.
Looking upstream means holding companies accountable for their products' "downstream" impacts. Proof of safety should be required before any new chemical enters the marketplace, rather than proof of harm once the contaminant shows up in our water and our bodies.
Our idea to look upstream to protect our waters from toxic pollution has made it to the final round of voting in Change.org's Ideas for Change in America competition...and you helped put it there! Now, please vote and ask your friends to vote to make our idea that every American should have access to clean, safe water free from toxic pollution #1 of the Top 10 Ideas for Change in America!
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!
You want it. I want it. Polls show most of the American people want it. In his State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama made it clear that he wanted it, that Senator John Kerry wanted it, and that even conservative Senator Lindsey Graham wanted it.
That "it" is comprehensive clean energy jobs legislation that would free the United States from our dependence on foreign oil. For Michigan, comprehensive legislation will rev the engine of our clean energy economy, which is already driving our economic resurgence.
Kudos to Governor Deval Patrick! In a step forward towards a victory for the public health and the environment, Patrick restored funding for the agencies involved in implementing the Toxics Use Reduction Act (TURA) program in his proposed fiscal year 2011 budget issued January 27th 2010.
Join EarthShare New Jersey as we celebrate all that is New Jersey and 16 years of serving our environment. Since 1994, EarthShare New Jersey has raised more than $3.8 million for the state's leading environmental organizations.
On January 15, 2010 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released new pollution limits that may finally make it possible to protect Florida's waters. Unfortunately, special interest industry insider's who don't want to pay for the privilege of polluting our water are gearing up in opposition!
We need you to be on the record that Florida needs the highest possible standards to protect all of our waters. Send your comments to the EPA and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection now.
Low and unenforceable water quality standards in Florida have resulted in runoff triggering harmful algae blooms which poison water supplies, kill fish and choke marine life. Excess nitrogen and phosphorus have led to significant water quality problems and declines in wildlife habitat in both our inland and coastal waters.
On Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 1 p.m., thousands of Floridians from all walks of life will gather on beaches from Pensacola to Key West and Miami to Jacksonville in a statewide coastal protest against legislative proposals to open Florida's waters to offshore oil drilling.
Stand with Clean Water Action and be a part of this historic event! Go to your local Florida beach at 1 p.m. wearing a black t-shirt or hat. At 1:30 pm, we will hold hands creating human lines in the sand protesting oil drilling in Florida's waters.
To find out what's being organized in your area, visit Hands Across the Sand. For additional information on offshore drilling issues or regarding this event please contact Margaret Morales at 305-653-9101.
Find out about the real costs of nuclear power and what it does to our environment. Our factsheets will give you the information you need about why nuclear power is the wrong energy source for Minnesota.
Why we should uphold the nuclear moratorium (pdf, 997 kb).
The true costs of nuclear power. (pdf, 857 kb).
The continuing problem of nuclear waste. (pdf, 724 kb).
Adding nuclear plants will be bad for our water. (pdf, 635 kb).
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