Keep Our Clean Water Progress Moving!

Under current federal policies many water bodies are vulnerable to pollution and destruction. The Obama Administration has proposed to fix this problem but powerful special interests oppose this clean water progress. Last year, their allies in Congress attempted to block the Administration’s proposals several times last year. With your help we fended off those attacks.

We need your help again!

As 2012 begins, we need to remind the White House that people support clean water policies and that they need to keep this process moving.

EPA's Lisa Jackson on protecting ALL our waters!

The Senate is pulling out the dictionaries for a debate over our water.  The question they have to answer is whether "ALL" means "everything" or whether it means "only things that aren't inconvenient". Seriously, we're not kidding.  Polluting interests continue to oppose the Administration’s efforts to clarify that ALL bodies of water are protected by the Clean Water Act. Now they’re forcing a vote in the U.S. Senate.

Find out what the amendment to H.R. 2354 means. Tell your Senators:  Don't let December become a polluter free-for-all.  Keep anti-environmental amendments and riders off of year-end bills.

WI State Regulators gave this plant a passing grade

undermining public health

Your U.S. Senators need to hear from you that controlling coal ash pollution is a common sense way to protect our health, our water and our communities. 

We need you to tell your Senators: Coal ash is too toxic not to regulate

For much of the last decade, Clean Water Action has worked to restore Clean Water Act protections for many water bodies. In the wake of confusing Supreme Court decisions, the previous Administration gave in to special interest pressure and instituted policies that threaten many of the streams and wetlands which affect drinking water sources and which filter pollution and prevent flooding.

Ask your Representative to Co-Sponsor HR2359, the Safe Cosmetics Act!

Did you know right now in the U.S. it's perfectly legal for there to be lead in lipstick and carcinogens in baby shampoo?  Some of these chemicals don't even appear on product labels. This bill (H.R. 2359) would give the Food and Drug Administration the authority it needs to ensure that personal care products are free of harmful substances like lead, 1,4-dioxane and chemicals linked to cancer.