Connecticut
First Annual CT Benefit
the first annual clean water
action connecticut benefit
Come celebrate our 2011 victories and learn about our plans for 2012! Enjoy festive beverages and a buffet of tasty treats donated by local restaurants and stores! Visit the beautiful Charter Oak Cultural Center, and celebrate a year of hard work for public health and the environment! We'll be joined by State Senator Beth Bye and Bryan Garcia, President of the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund.
Thursday, November 10th, 2011 Charter Oak Cultural Center 21 Charter Oak AveHartford, CT
To purchase tickets or make a contribution
Clean Water Action Campaign Victories in Connecticut
Since 1998, Clean Water Action has won a number of legislative and regulatory victories.
2008
Lead Levels in Children's Products Restricted
Clean Water Action and allies in the Coalition for a Safe & Healthy Connecticut turned back intense opposition from big chemical companies, the toy industry, and dozens of in-state retailers and recently won new legislation to phase out toxic lead and asbestos in children's products.
Municipal Organizing in Connecticut
Clean Water Action helps to organize and support municipal clean energy groups across the state of Connecticut in a variety of ways. In addition to being a major partner in the Neighbor to Neighbor Clean Energy Challenge program, our full-time staff Justin Haaheim and Roger Smith work specifically with town and grassroots groups across the state to build capacity, strengthen connections to other groups and involve municipal voices in State-level advocacy.
Contact Name:
Justin Haaheim
Contact Phone:
1 860-232-6232
Contact Email:
The CSHC December 2011 Newsletter
Coalition for a Safe and Healthy Connecticut - the December Newsletter
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We continue to work with our national SAFER and Safer Chemicals Healthy Families colleagues to press for meaningful reform of our outdated and ineffective federal Toxic Substances Control Act. The Safe Chemicals Act 2011, a bill supported by our national partners, goes a long way to fix our broken system. We’ve generated numerous calls and hundreds of citizen letters to our U.S. Senators urging them to support this bill. We are extremely grateful to Senator Blumenthal for his leadership in signing on as a co-sponsor. We continue to urge Senator Lieberman to do the same.
Clean Energy In Connecticut
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Great News for Clean Energy
Together with nine other nonprofits, Clean Water Fund won a competitive grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to run an innovative grassroots energy efficiency campaign, the Neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge.
New England Currents | Winter 2011
new england currents
winter 2011 edition
Inside
making manufacturers take out the trash!
Americans generate a lot of trash — some would say, much more than their “fair share.” Many people feel that each individual should be responsible for reducing their own waste, perhaps along with the local community recycling program. The reality is that cities and towns have ended up bearing most of the responsibility — and the costs — for figuring out ways to reduce waste and make recycling programs work. Over the past ten years, however, new policies challenging this conventional approach have started gaining traction.
Home Energy Solutions in CT
efficiency first - don’t hand power plant owners $1 billion
State law requires that our energy needs be met first through cost-effective energy efficiency investments as they are cheaper and less polluting than generating more electricity.
Send a message to Governor Malloy and Commissioner Esty today!
The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is currently deliberating on the future of the CT Energy Efficiency Fund. Governor Malloy and DEEP Commissioner Dan Esty need to know they have public support to implement our state’s efficiency first law rather than freeze funding for Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund programs like Home Energy Solutions at current levels. Inaction would hand $1 billion1 in consumer savings over the next five years to buy electricity from unregulated, for-profit power plant owners.
Letters to Senators
it takes a broad movement
The Barrasso/Heller Amendment to the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (H.R. 2354) is bad news. It would permanently bar the Army Corps of Engineers from restoring longstanding Clean Water Act protections to water bodies throughout the country. This undermines the common-sense protections that Americans expect to ensure clean water for drinking, swimming and fishing. We have to stop it - and we will.
Barrasso - Heller
barrasso-heller: the amendment that would put all water at risk
- Tell the Senate: It's past time to protect all water!
- A Broad Movement: Letters to Key Senators
- The New York Times on Barrasso - Heller
- Putting our water at risk
- Read the amendment
Wetlands and streams are a vital part of our water system. They feed into and clean rivers and lakes throughout the country. The Mississippi and Colorado rivers, San Francisco and Chesapeake Bays and every other body of water relies on small streams and wetlands across the United States. Wetlands also provide vital flood protection for cities, towns, and farmland - an acre of wetland can hold nearly 1 million gallons of floodwaters.
Anne Hulick Awarded
In 1980 the Connecticut Nurses’ Association established the Diamond Jubilee Awards to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Association. These prestigious awards represent the highest honor that the nursing profession in Connecticut can bestow on one of its own, a kind of “Nobel Prize” in nursing. These awards are named after some of the most distinguished leaders in Connecticut nursing history. The awards are presented annually at a gala. This year one of Clean Water Action's amazing teamis being awarded for her excellence!
