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Duke’s BIG ASH PROBLEM
By Jennifer Peters, National Water Campaigns Coordinator – Follow Jennifer on Twitter (@EarthAvenger) Leaving 100 million tons of toxic, industrial waste in unstable, unlined pits near rivers and...
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#GoVote
By Michael Kelly, Director of Online Communications It’s just past 8 am on the west coast, which means that all polls are open in the lower forty-eight (Hawaii and Alaska are very soon). That means...
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Oil and Gas and the Safe Drinking Water Act
By Lynn Thorp, National Programs Director – Follow Lynn on Twitter (@LTCWA) The Infographic – download and share While it is widely recognized that Congress exempted hydraulic fracturing from the Safe...
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Protecting Our Drinking Water – Is It Too Much to Ask?
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director – Follow Lynn on Twitter (@LTCWA) The U.S. Senate will vote on amendments to the Keystone pipeline bill and two of them are directly related to drinking water...
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It’s a Week About Water
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director – Follow Lynn on Twitter (@LTCWA) It’s a big week for water. Tomorrow’s hearing on the proposal to close loopholes in Clean Water Act protections is unusual...
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Working Together for Change
By Paula W, Pittsburgh Phone Organizer Working as a political canvasser can be frustrating. Especially when certain politicians seem more intent on digging in, maintaining the status quo, and working...
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The Horrors of Sulfur Dioxide
By Denny Green, Michigan Communications Coordinator – Follow our Michigan Team on Twitter (@CleanWaterMI) I imagine that reading about “Sulfur Dioxide” may, at first, sound about as interesting as...
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Fighting Cancer with Fire Fighters
By Elizabeth Saunders, Massachusetts State Director – Follow Our MA Team on Twitter (@CleanH2OMA) Elizabeth Saunders speaks at the 41st Biennial Convention of the Professional Fire Fighters of...
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What’s Controversial? Absolutely Nothing (about the Clean Water Rule)
by Jonathan A. Scott, Director of Corporate Relations, on Twitter, @jscottnh There’s no real controversy here… Capping more than a decade of campaigning by Clean Water Action and allies, the Obama...
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Imagining Green Infrastructure in the West End
By GI Jos: Brandon Wang ’16, Kai Salem ’18, Andrew Vann ’17, Grace Molino ’18, Jessie O’Dell ’16 Originally posted at SwearerSparks We’re the GI Jos, one of three student teams in this year’s Teaching...
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Explaining EPA’s Clean Water Rule with Simpsons GIFs
By Neil Bhaerman, Communications Associate – Follow Neil on Twitter – @neilanalien. Hi, I want to tell you about a very important EPA rule that ensures that the Clean Water Act actually keeps our...
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Fixing the Problem with Power Plant Pollution
By Alex Maykowski, Michigan Program Intern Every summer as a child I traveled up to my grandfather’s home in Northern Lower Michigan. As much as I enjoyed spending time with my grandfather, my favorite...
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What is Oil & Gas Doing to the Susquehanna River?
By Nathan Sooy, Central Pennsylvania Campaign Coordinator In the past 7 years, the Susquehanna Watershed has seen a tremendous industrial buildout of drilling sites, frack pits, condensate tanks,...
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Out of sight, Out of mind, Out of Control
By Eli Scott, Oakland Field Canvass Director The Clean Water Action field canvass flaunts over 500 letters collected door to door calling for the shut down of illegal injection wells This is the third...
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SB 248: Common Sense Protections From Oil and Gas Operations in CA
By Andrew Grinberg, CA Oil and Gas Program Manager – Follow Andrew on Twitter (@AndrewBGrinberg) This post is part of Clean Water Action’s ongoing series this month on California Oil and Gas policy....
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Sustainable Groundwater Management in California Depends on You!
By Jennifer Clary, California Water Program Manager. Follow Jennifer on twitter- @JenClary_Water Today, Clean Water Fund, in partnership the Union of Concerned Scientists and Community Water Center...
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Uncovering the Truth about Toxic Chemicals in Our Personal Care Products
By Ellie Babcock, Clean Water Action Field Canvasser Hi there! My name is Ellie Babcock and I’m from Sherwood, Oregon and working for Clean Water Action. Volunteering for Keep-A-Breast (KAB) and...
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Want to protect your drinking water? Stop looking at your faucet!
Algal bloom in the Great Lakes. Credit: NOAA/NASA By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director – Follow Lynn on Twitter (@LTCWA) This time last year, nearly half a million people in and around Toledo,...
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One Thing We Can Learn from the Modern-Day Victorian Couple
By Neil Bhaerman, Communications Associate – Follow Neil on Twitter – @neilanalien. A first-person essay on Vox, “I love the Victorian era. So I decided to live in it,” has been blowing up the internet...
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Exposing Drinking Water Threats from Oil & Gas Activities
By Lynn Thorp and John Noël – @LTCWA and @Noel_Johnny We’re honored to have a feature article on Aquifer Exemptions in the most recent Journal of the American Water Works Association (AWWA). AWWA is...
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