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Urge Your Senators to Adequately Fund PFAS Cleanup!
- By: Organizational Admin
- Clean Water Defense | News
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) recently submitted a budget request for the cleanup of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at military installations....
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Urge Congress to Adequately Fund PFAS Cleanup!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) recently submitted a budget request for the cleanup of military installations, including those facilities contaminated...
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Urge Secretary Buttigieg to Finalize the Gas Pipeline Leak Detection and Repair Rule!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has proposed an Advanced Leak Detection and...
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Tell EPA to Protect Our Communities and Waterways From PFAS!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to list nine additional PFAS compounds as hazardous. EPA must use its authority to protect...
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Tell EPA to Finalize the Strongest and Most Durable Methane Regulations
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Earlier this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a new rule that would charge oil and gas companies for excessive climate-harming...
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Tell EPA to Stop Exempting Factory Farms From Reporting Hazardous Air Pollution!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Once again, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is walking back its commitment to revise or eliminate an illegal rule exempting factory farms...
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Tell EPA to Protect American Waterways From Slaughterhouse and Rendering Plant Pollution!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced a proposed rule to establish new water pollution control standards for slaughterhouses...
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Dive Into Democracy: 2023 Year in Review
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Through our Dive Into Democracy blog and email series, we informed and engaged our U.S. audience on the most pressing clean water issues of the day. In...
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We Must Urge Congress to Pass the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2023!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
Representative Jared Huffman (CA) and Senator Jeff Merkley (OR) recently reintroduced the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act, a sweeping but common-sense...
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Tell the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality to Stop Enabling the Chaos That CAFOs Create
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Farming in North Carolina is not what it used to be. Profit-driven industrial giants have eradicated the traditional “family farm” model of agriculture....
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Help Fully Restore the National Environmental Policy Act
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), passed in 1970, requires federal agencies to assess any significant environmental impacts a federal action,...
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Tell Congress to Pass the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act, which was first introduced in 2020 and updated in 2021, will soon be reintroduced in both the U.S. House of...
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Help Extend Water Quality Protections to Tribal Waters
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed a new rule that would institute federal baseline water quality standards (WQS)...
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Tell Congress to Keep Plastic Out of Our National Parks!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Representative Mike Quigley of Illinois recently introduced House Resolution 4561, also known as the Reducing Waste in National Parks Act, for the reduction...
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Urge USDOT to Finalize the Strongest Possible Pipeline Leak Detection and Repair Standards
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | News
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), by way of its Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), recently announced a proposed...
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Help Protect American Communities, Air, and Waters From Toxic Power Plant Pollution!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | Climate And Safe Energy | News
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to strengthen Clean Air Act (CAA) controls on mercury and other toxic pollution emissions...
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Tell President Biden to Protect Environmental and Public Health Safeguards From the Reckless Demands of the Fossil Fuel Industry
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
Certain members of Congress are trying to sneak through a dirty deal to undo environmental protections by trading away vital safeguards in exchange for...
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Urge EPA to Protect Waterways From Coal-Fired Power Plant Pollution
- By: Kelly Foster
- News
In response to decades of advocacy and litigation by Waterkeeper Alliance and our partners, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now proposing...
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Tell EPA to Expand Drinking Water Protections Against PFAS Contamination
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a new rule for regulating PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in our drinking water....
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Help Urge Congress to Pass the Railway Safety Act of 2023
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
Earlier this year, a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, tragically unleashing several cars worth of hazardous and carcinogenic materials, including...
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Tell EPA to Reestablish CAFOs as a National Enforcement and Compliance Initiative
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News | Pure Farms, Pure Waters
Every four years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets national enforcement and compliance priorities to focus its resources on the nation’s...
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Tell EPA to Adopt Strongest Possible Methane Regulations
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed an updated draft rule to cut methane and other harmful pollutants from oil and gas operations...
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Dive Into Democracy: 2022 Year In Review
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Clean Water Defense | News
Through our Dive Into Democracy blog and email series, we informed and engaged our U.S. audience on the most pressing clean water issues of the day. In...
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EPA Must Use the Clean Water Act to Regulate Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
America’s food systems are today dominated by a handful of multinational corporations that employ industrialized methods to produce most of the meat...
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Tell Congress to Pass the Clean Water Standards for PFAS Act!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
A family of dangerous emerging contaminants, PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, poses a serious risk to human health and the wellbeing of our...
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Tell Congress to Reject Manchin’s ‘Dirty Deal’ to Fast-Track Fossil Fuel Projects
- By: Thomas Hynes
- Climate And Safe Energy | News
In exchange for his vote to help pass the Inflation Reduction Act last month, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has demanded a vote on a second bill...
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Tell EPA: It’s Time to Adopt National Numeric Nutrient Limits on Water Pollution
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
American waterways have a major nutrient pollution problem. Uncontrolled discharges of nitrogen and phosphorus are overwhelming waterways with more than...
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Tell EPA to Fully Restore State, Tribal, and Community Rights Under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Clean Water Act is the nation’s most effective tool to protect American waterways. An essential component of the Clean Water Act, Section 401, gives...
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Support D.C. Statehood!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The long overdue Washington, D.C. Admission Act, which passed in the House of Representatives last year, would finally extend Congressional representation...
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Congress Must Pass the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act!
- By: Thomas Hynes
- News
The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act was introduced last year in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. This bill represents...