Publications
Florida Currents | Winter 2011
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Florida Currents
Don't sit on the sidelines
We all want an efficient, streamlined government, but we also need to have balance to ensure we don't dismantle or disregard key public health and environmental protections. Florida's economy and our residents depend on having clean and safe water. Today, at all levels of government we are seeing an attack on water quality protections. At the state and federal level attempts are being made to gut fundamental water quality laws that protect our residents.
Everglades Restoration Works!
Everglades restoration is a sound investment in our environment that creates local jobs today! The recent report "Everglades Restoration Works!" is a collaborative effort by the Everglades Coalition to educate Floridians about the many beneficial economic impacts of Everglades restoration.
Over the last three years, Everglades restoration projects have generated 10,500 jobs, and more than 442,000 jobs will be created over the next several decades in tourism, real estate and commercial and recreational fishing industries.
Quality Growth for Florida’s Future
Promoting quality growth for our state is the most important thing that we can do to ensure a prosperous life for future generations of Floridians. Many of Florida's most integral economies - like tourism and agriculture - rely upon the availability of abundant land and natural resources. Appropriate planning today will leave us with a brighter tomorrow.
Rock Mining in The Everglades Agricultural Area
An Inventory of Existing Resources and Assessment of Impacts
Clean Water Action and its partners have conducted an analysis of existing scientific information on the demonstrated and potential impacts of continued large-scale rock mining in the sensitive Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA).
The outcome of this project is the creation of the first comprehensive bibliography of rock mining resources available for South Florida. In addition, the report provides recommendations for further studies that should be performed before moving forward on any new or expanded mining operations. Among these recommendations are the use of geophysical tools to provide more accurate images of the porous aquifer and further investigation into possible interference with federal and state Everglades Restoration initiatives. Results of the analysis have confirmed previous assessments that the issue of rock mining in the EAA is multi-faceted and highly scientific.
Get the complete report.
(pdf, 172 kb)
Other Publications
California Currents | Winter 2011
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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.Colorado Currents | Winter 2011
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frack attack across colorado's front range!
Northern Colorado, home base to Colorado Clean Water Action in Fort Collins, is in the midst of the biggest fracking boom in the United States. Weld County, just east of Fort Collins, has more active oil and gas wells than any county in the U.S, with nearly 18,000 wells. As a geologic formation called the “Niobrara Shale” is drilled for oil and gas, 10,000 to 20,000 more wells could be added. The Niobrara is a deep shale rock layer that requires hydraulic fracking to get out the oil and gas. As is the case with shale gas fracking across the U.S., the issue is extremely controversial in northern Colorado. Recently, cities and counties up and down the Front Range have been dealing with the consequences of drilling and fracking.Clean Water Currents | Fall 2011
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But sometimes, the people we elect seem to forget that. They’ve been
forgetting it a lot lately in Washington, DC and in too many of our
state capitols. But with your support, we keep reminding them how
important clean water is… to our health, to our quality of life, to our
economy and to our jobs!
This fall marked the 39th anniversary of the Clean Water Act — one of
our most successful environmental laws ever! The Clean Water Act has
restored lakes, rivers and streams around the country to health.
Because of this law, the Cuyahoga River doesn’t catch on fire, our Great
Lakes have come back to life, and thousands of rivers and streams are
healthier now than they’ve been in fifty years! But instead of
celebrating our progress, those of us who care about our water find
ourselves defending against an all-out assault.
Chesapeake Currents - Fall 2011
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- We Can't Live Without Clean Water
- Uranium Mining
- Virginia Endorsements
- Winning in Baltimore
- DC - Leading on Stormwater
- Delaware's Senator Takes on Diesel
we can’t live without clean water
It’s that simple. But sometimes, the people we elect seem to forget that. And they’ve been forgetting it a lot lately in Washington, DC and in too many of our state capitals.