Stop Burning Trash, and Taxpayer Dollars, With This Simple Policy Idea
The Connecticut trash crisis is not going away. We need creative solutions. Before we ask residents to fund the construction of more polluting trash-burning facilities, let’s try something proven to work - Save As You Throw programs.
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Protecting Clean Energy in Connecticut
Earth Month is a good time to share what we’re doing together to protect the planet, startingin Connecticut. Climate change is the most pressing issue of our time with impacts on water, air and public health. Recent reports urging immediate call to action are alarming yet can drive political will
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Introducing our Connecticut Clean Water Youth Advocates
Students and young people all over the world are standing up to address many significant problems facing our society—and making a big difference! We’re doing the same by launching a club at our school called “Choate for Clean Water.” As juniors in high-school, we became concerned about clean
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Hearing from Our Members
CT Member Survey Results We asked our members in Connecticut what they were concerned about. The results are in and issues like stormwater runoff, plastic pollution and PFAS contamination of drinking water sources around the country, including some private wells in Greenwich were top priorities
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Protecting Our Health from Toxic PFAS Chemicals
At the 2018 annual Safer States meeting, state leads, scientists, lawyers and advocates from across the U.S, discussed the stark reality of the health and environmental impacts of per and polyfluorinated chemicals, commonly referred to as PFAS.
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Stop the Raids
Last year, the General Assembly voted to divert $175 million dollars from the Connecticut Green Bank, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the Conservation and Load Management and Clean Energy Funds to plug a budget hole.
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Clean Water Action Celebrates Environmental Heroes in Connecticut
Environmental advocacy work has been pretty daunting these past two years. Every day it seems there is another attack on our environment whether it’s rolling back the Clean Power Plan, withdrawal from the historic Paris Agreement, allowing more methane pollution, rolling back achievable emission standards for cars and trucks, opening up public lands to drilling and mining, reducing standards for maintaining coal ash ponds or rolling back the Clean Water Rule. The list goes on and on.
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We All Live Downstream - Clean Water Action Podcast
Welcome to We All Live Downstream: a Clean Water Action Podcast available on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
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