On AlterNet: clean water act
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "clean water act"
Brian Merchant, TreeHugger. October 13, 2009.
Millions of people get their drinking water from rivers and lakes polluted by the coal industry.
Jeff Biggers, The Nation. September 16, 2009.
An important announcement from EPA about mountaintop mining may mean there's hope for Appalachia's waterways.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. June 30, 2009.
As long as we see rivers as something to be consumed or treated as a dump, we will never be a healthy society.
Clean Water ActionApril 7, 2009.
In total, 59 percent of the nation's waterways and millions of acres of wetlands are currently at risk.
Yee Huang, Center for Progressive Reform. April 1, 2009.
EPA may help the protection of water by reviving a much-discussed but ill-fated rule to regulate water pollution from non-point sources.
Jeff Biggers, AlterNet. March 23, 2009.
The first shot has been fired in the legislative battle to end the devastating practice of mountaintop removal mining in central Appalachia.
Sierra ClubDecember 17, 2008.
The policies the Bush administration adopted are undermining pollution protection of our wetlands, rivers and streams.
Environment News ServiceDecember 17, 2008.
New evidence shows that hundreds of Clean Water Act violations have not been pursued with enforcement actions and the inaction covered up.
Carl Pope, Huffington Post. October 24, 2008.
Her campaign was born because of her defiance of the Clean Water Act.
Harry Hanbury, American News Project. May 26, 2008.
Polluters dump about 240 million pounds of toxins into our waterways each year, and the effects on our environment could be disastrous.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. October 11, 2007.
Thanks to global warming, pollution, population growth, and privatization, we are teetering on the edge of a global crisis.
