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California Trades Safety for Protecting Polluters
The State of California is proposing a drinking water standard for perchlorate, the primary component of solid rocket fuel, of 6 parts per billion (ppb). Perchlorate affects the thyroid and can lead to impaired brain development in fetuses and infants. The 6 ppb standard is not adequately health protective of the most vulnerable portions of our population and protects the parties who contaminated the drinking water of approximately 20 million Californians from having to clean up much of their pollution. That is why Clean Water Action, California advocates for a scientifically supported standard of 1 ppb.
Please take one minute to tell Governor Schwarzenegger that you want to put the health of our children before the needs of the polluters. To do so, we need a perchlorate drinking water standard of 1 ppb in California. Address your comments to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA 95814. You can email them to www.govmail.ca.gov or fax them to 916-445-4633. The deadline for comments is November 3, 2006. Thank you for your help!
Take the Lead on Lead - Let the Governor know - No More Lead in Our Drinking
Water! Take Action Now
Demand protection of the Clean Water Act!
The Clean Water Act is being
threatened. Over 150,000 miles of waterways in California alone could loose
their protections. Elected officials have drawn up the Clean Water Authority
Restoration Act to enforce the meaning behind the Clean Water Act..to keep
our drinking water sources clean! Our strategy, Strength in Numbers! We need
you to protect our most basic and precious resource, our water! Write to
your elected officials who have not yet signed on to the Clean Water
Authority Restoration Bill and demand they push for protection of our
waterways and our future!
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The Governor's $222 Billion Infrastructure Proposal?
Demand Real Solutions for California and our Water!
Governor Schwarzenegger is proposing a tax and borrow plan to spend on public infrastructure. The people of California need and deserve: drinking water protection, flood protection, and pro-active protection of our deltas, wetlands, rivers and other drinking water sources. Also, fees for water use should directly correlate with the amount of water being used. In other words, industries need to pay their fair share instead of burdening individual water users. We need to take action by writing to our elected officials demanding that this bond money has real value for the communities in California.
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Protect the San Mateo Coast: 1% Maximum Growth!
The north San Mateo County Coastline is a national treasure. Fortunately, previous generations protected it from overdevelopment so we could inherit its beauty. Today, however, we need you're your help in ensuring that our County's Board of Supervisors remain faithful stewards of this treasure. We need to send as many letters as possible to the Board ensuring that the maximum growth rate along the coast is no more than at 1%.
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Strawberry Fields Forever - Methyl Bromide Campaign
Methyl bromide is an odorless, colorless gas, which is used as a pesticide on strawberries, cherries and other crops. It can cause harm to the human neurological system and depletes the earth's ozone layer.
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Protect Our Communities and Drinking Water from Levee Failure
Support efforts to make protecting our water, health and communities a priority!
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Protect CA’s Coast From Oil Drilling
The 2005 Energy Bill proves that the Bush administration has their sights on
our coastline. Californians have consistently valued marine life, coastal
communities, and tourism before the short-term profits of the fossil fuel
industry. Please join CWA in opposing offshore oil drilling on these fronts:
OIL AND WATER DON'T MIX
Support the renewal of the Congressional Moratorium on Offshore
Oil-Drilling.
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