On Earth Day, eighteen Pennsylvania State Senators introduced SB 777, state legislation that would protect rivers, streams, and aquifers (groundwater) that supply our public drinking water. This bill, the Safer Drinking Water Act, will provide special protection to any water that supplies the public with its drinking water.

Take Action Now: Urge your State Senator to support the Safer Drinking Water Act and push for a vote in the senate.

Yearly, diesel emissions cause 237 deaths, 340 heart attacks and 3,399 asthma attacks in Pittsburgh alone according to the Clean Air Task Force¹!

School buses emit diesel particulates from their tailpipes and studies show that this polluted air gets trapped inside the bus with our children. Diesel emissions can aggravate asthma, cause lung damage, and other respiratory problems.

These are alarming facts! Please support the Allegheny County Partnership to Reduce Diesel Pollution's efforts to protect our kids by signing this petition.

We need your help to flood your legislators with letters and faxes urging him to support 100 foot stream buffers on all streams in Pennsylvania.

Instead of supporting Clean Water Action's proposal to require at least 100 foot buffers on all streams in our state, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is now proposing just a voluntary program. They would encourage developers to include buffers on their sites by agreeing to eliminate state review of stormwater plans that include buffers.

What's wrong with a voluntary buffers program?

Pennsylvania has more miles of polluted waterways that any other state in the nation. Help Springfield Township enact a proposal to curb this disturbing trend. Science has shown that buffer zones along streams protect our waterways from sedimentation, non-point source pollution, flash flooding and ultimately lower costs associated with the treatment of drinking water.

New Jersey currently has mandatory buffer protections throughout the state, Pennsylvania has not yet enacted a statewide policy on this issue. We urge individual municipalities and residents to set the example and approve the best methods to control water quality in their own backyards.

We need your help to flood Governor Rendell with letters and faxes urging him to support 100 foot stream buffers on all streams in Pennsylvania.

Instead of supporting Clean Water Action's proposal to require at least 100 foot buffers on all streams in our state, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is now proposing just a voluntary program. They would encourage developers to include buffers on their sites by agreeing to eliminate state review of stormwater plans that include buffers.

What's wrong with a voluntary buffers program?

On September 3rd, 2008, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the addition of the BoRit Asbestos Site, located by the Wissahickon Creek at the intersection of Whitpain Township, Upper Dublin Township and Ambler Borough, to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL).

Pennsylvanians get their drinking water from our state's more than 83,000 miles of waterways, acres of lakes, reservoirs and wetlands, and a natural system of underground aquifers.

Unfortunately, many of these vital water sources have been contaminated or are at risk of contamination.

Despite their importance, drinking water sources receive no special protection from pollution and polluting activities in Pennsylvania! Without action, our drinking water sources are in danger.