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Clean Water Defense | Press Releases 12-06-2022
EPA’s Newly Proposed Rule to Enhance Reporting of PFAS Data is a Step in the Right Direction

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a new rule to close the minimum loophole from using per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). This...

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Melinda Booth
News 12-05-2022
Who Is Waterkeeper: Melinda Booth, Yuba River Waterkeeper

The Yuba River runs for about a hundred miles from its origins in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Lake Tahoe in Northern California downhill to the Sacramento...

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Loreto Coastkeeper
Clean Water Defense | News 11-23-2022
Monitoring Water Quality With Loreto Coastkeeper

Eco-Alianza de Loreto started Loreto Coastkeeper program in 2012 and began analyzing water quality at recreational sites along the coast of the Loreto...

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