Connect
Four Decades
Publications
New Jersey Currents - Fall 2011
Clearing the Air at the Ports
By Amy Goldsmith, State Director, New Jersey Currents Winter 2010
New Jerseyans now face the nation's second greatest cancer risk from diesel soot in the nation. According to UMDNJ, treatment for asthma alone accounts for 12 percent of New Jersey's managed care costs.
In Newark, school children experience a 25 percent asthma rate, double the state and national rates. The city's residents are hospitalized and experience premature deaths at twice the rate of Essex County Suburbs.
The Oyster Creek Saga Continues
The Oyster Creek nuclear power plant is located on the Jersey Shore's Barnegat Bay, 1 of 28 designated National Ocean Estuaries. It is the oldest commercial operating nuclear power plant in the U.S. and one of the oldest in the world.
Don’t Let the Chemical Industry Gamble With our Health!
On October 26th, the New Jersey Environmental Federation joined Senator Lautenberg and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson at a hearing in Newark on toxic chemicals and children's health. They were joined by CNN's Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta, New Jersey mother Lisa Huguenot who has a child with autism and an immune system disorder, and Frederica Perera, the Director of Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health.
Making the World Safer, One Playground at a Time
Tinton Falls, Ocean Township and Oceanport recently joined 40 other communities, (8 communities in Monmouth County), which have designated "Pesticide Free Zones" in parks and playgrounds including Asbury Park, Colts Neck, Hazlet, Neptune, and Red Bank.
The NJ Environmental Federation has been working with the Environmental Partnership, chaired by Mary Kinslow, a West Long Branch resident to promote Pesticide Free Zones in parks and open spaces in all their participating communities.
Other Publications
Clean Water Currents | Spring 2012
Inside
obama administration steps up
Making progress despite anti-environment Congress
Administration has helped to block many of the worst proposals from becoming law.
2012 Florida Legislative Report
The end of the regular session of the Florida Legislature closed on March 9th. Clean Water Action had several victories in defeating legislation and worked to amend other legislation that would have had a negative impact on water quality. In 2011, Clean Water Action with input from our members and in cooperation with our allies, set out a state legislative agenda asking elected officials to include public health, clean and safe water, and clean energy in the top tier of their 2012 Legislative priorities.
Fracking Spills
industry boosterism
Recently Colorado's Governor Hickenlooper recorded a radio ad that claimed "we have not had one instance of groundwater contamination associated with drilling and hydraulic fracturing" since 2008. A simple public records search shows this to be untrue - there have been dozens of spills that have contaminated groundwater since 2008. In Weld County alone, 44% of the 615 spills since 2008 have contaminated groundwater supplies.
On February 27, 2012 Clean Water Action and 12 of our partners delivered a letter to Gov. Hickenlooper expressing dismay over this claim in an ad sponsored by the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, the industry's main trade group. Read the letter below and download a letter to the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, asking them to address the inaccuracies in the ad.
California Currents | Winter 2011
Inside
getting to the source of plastics and trash in our waterways
Clean Water Action wanted to know where all the plastics and trash in the world’s oceans and inland waterways, such as the San Francisco Bay, are coming from. Research has long held that 80% of ocean debris is generated from land-based sources. It enters waterways through the storm drain system or gets blown into waterways from open garbage dumps and trash containers. But where is all that trash originating? There research just wasn’t there.Florida Currents | Winter
.jpg "Power_logo1_web (2).jpg"){kind=logo}