U.S. Congress and State Offices

Clean Water Action endorsed 155 candidates for federal and state offices in 2008, with 80 percent of them winning their elections. Below are the winning candidates plus a few still too close to call as of November 6.

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.

Barack Obama, D, for president

Supports full funding of clean and safe water projects to help communities protect and clean up their water.

Voted in 2007 to end taxpayer subsidies for big oil and to support clean, renewable energy sources like wind and solar.

Voted for tougher fuel efficiency standards so cars can go farther on a gallon of gas, saving consumers at the pump.

Primary cosponsor of the Lead Poisoning Reduction Act, which aims to protect children from toxic lead poisoning.

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.)

Vista Park in Pine Beach now a pesticide free zone

By Eddie Hollowell, Staff Writer
The Ocean County Observer

Pine Beach - Children and adults who use Vista Park can breathe easy.

Borough officials have declared the five-acre riverfront park a pesticide-free zone.

Park areas are now free of pesticides

By Danielle Camilli

Burlington County Times

Burlington County is working to make its parks environmentally safe for visitors. The county Board of Freeholders recently declared picnic and playground areas in the county park system as "pesticide-free zones." In addition, all areas along waterways in county parks are pesticide-free zones, as well.

Chemical-free zone

By Ashley Kindergan
Herald News

Clifton -- Sunbathers, dog walkers and small children can frolic on the grass in city parks this summer without worrying about dangerous chemicals. The city has become one of just a handful of state municipalities to sign on to an initiative that bans pesticide use in parks.

Hazlet bans pesticide use in sections of parks

BY DAN NEWMAN, Staff Writer

The Independent, October 2006

The new environmentally friendly ladybug logo, which will be posted at all Hazlet parks, notifies the public of "Pesticide-Free Zones." Hazlet is the first municipality in Monmouth County to have such a policy.

Neptune, NJ-Township Mayor James Manning, Jr., Neptune Township Environmental Commission and the NJ Environmental Federation gathered at the Bradley Park Playground to declare that designated parks and playgrounds in Neptune Twp will be declared as "Pesticide Free Zones."

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Monmouth County is one of a number of religious organizations in the county and across the Garden State that have taken steps to protect the environment, according to congregation members.

In April, the congregation adopted Pesticide Free Zones (PFZ). Pictured below is NJEF's State Director Amy Goldsmith with kids of the congregation putting up PFZ signs.