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.

In this issue:

• Maryland: Donna Edwards Victory Brings Another Environmental Champion to Congress
• Virginia: Polluters Foiled In Attempt To Eliminate Citizen Boards
• District of Columbia: Independent Testing for Lead in D.C. Tapwater
• Delaware: Discharge Permit for Indian River Power Plant

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Clean Water Action has endorsed Gerry Connolly (VA, CD 11) and Frank Kratovil (MD, CD 1) for Congress.

In this issue:

• Clean Water Action Endorses Barack Obama For President
• Virginia: Gerry Connolly for Congress
• Maryland
  • Frank Kratovil For Congress
  • Incinerator Campaign
• Delaware: Obama Choice of Biden Puts Delaware on the Road to the White House
• District of Columbia: Potential Votes Loom on Stormwater and Lead Legislation

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In this issue:

• A Flawed Energy Bill Passes
• Virginia: Protect Citizen Review
• Maryland: Annapolis Session Kicks Off
  • Chesapeake Bay 2010 Trust Fund
  • Global Warming Solutions Act
  • Put the Brakes On The Inter-County Connector
• Delaware: Another Recycling Battle In Dover
• District of Columbia: Phosphate Ban Proposed In The District of Columbia

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David Phelps, Clean Water Action's National Political Director returns to We All Live Downstream to discuss how climate change could impact his community.

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It's not the kind of headline you ever want to see in your local daily newspaper. Particularly at 6:30 am - and before a first cup of coffee!
But there it was: large type, bold and spread across the front page of my hometown newspaper, impossible to miss: "Warming could cause Bay to rise one foot."

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.)