Action Center on Drinking Water and Pollution

The Action Center promotes policies to tackle sources of pollution that pose public health risks in drinking water and to identify and challenge inequities in implementation of the Clean Water Act, the nation’s landmark water pollution prevention law.

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EJScreen

EJScreen is a free tool created by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EJScreen combines demographic and environmental data to display information about environmental justice.

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Action Center on Drinking Water and Pollution

The goal of the Center is to solve drinking water challenges with equitable solutions that address water pollution at the source. Polluting industries, not vulnerable communities, should bear the cost of cleaning up pollution that threatens drinking water sources.

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Publications

Clean Water Action/Clean Water Fund Comments on EPA Proposed Drinking Water Regulations for PFAS Chemicals, May 2023

Read public comment submitted by Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund to EPA in response to the first ever proposed national standards for regulating PFAS chemicals in drinking water.

Clean Water Action supports the Environmental Justice for All Act | Letter to Natural Resources Committee Leadership

The Environmental Justice for All Act (H.R. 2021), introduced by Rep Raul Grijalva and Rep Donald McEachin, is a long overdue package of reforms that will help address the history of environmental injustice that has led to undue burdens of pollution on people of color and low-income communities.

RE: Comments on Preliminary Effluent Guidelines Program Plan 15, Docket Number

While we commend EPA’s efforts, we are seriously concerned that the agency is not moving quickly enough to address PFAS wastewater discharges from other point source categories that are known or suspected of using these toxic “forever chemicals.”
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