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American Water Works Association and Clean Water Action applaud EPA’s final Steam Electric Power Generating Effluent Guidelines
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The American Water Works Association (AWWA) and Clean Water Action today applauded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new power plant pollution limits designed to protect drinking water supplies.
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New Power Plant Pollution Limits Will Protect Drinking Water and Water Quality
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today finalized a package of new pollution standards for power plants that will significantly reduce water, air and climate pollution. As part of this package, EPA finalized stringent Clean Water Act standards to limits toxic water pollution from coal-fired power plants.
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More Must Be Done to Protect Environmental Justice Communities
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Democrat leadership urged to move and pass HB 652
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Clean Water Action’s Marta Young Receives “Activist of the Year” Honorable Mention by Upstream!
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Marta Young, Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund’s Zero Waste Specialist, received an Honorable Mention for Activist of the Year by Upstream for her efforts to grow the reuse movement in New Jersey
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Chrome-6 Standard Set but Falls Short in Protecting Community Health
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After seven years, the California State Water Board (SWB) finally set a needed limit for Hexavalent Chromium (chrome-6) in drinking water. Unfortunately, the set maximum limit of 10 μg/L fails to protect human health, being 500 times the Public Health Goal of 0.02 μg/L. Community partners from the Central Coast and Central Valley previously made comments before the SWB urging them to fulfill their duty and protect the health of impacted communities.
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