Clean Water Action is working to make sure that strong pro-environment candidates are elected to office this year. From the Presidency, to Congress, to our State legislature, we need candidates elected who truly support clean water, clean air, and clean energy. You can help! Please sign up to volunteer and make sure Pennsylvania casts a vote for protecting our environment and our health this November!
Pennsylvania
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Elections 2008: Help Pennsylvania Vote for Our Environment and Our Health!
Actions
Protect Communities From Toxic Waste
Since it was dumped there generations ago, asbestos and other toxic material has sat in piles on the 32 acres of land by the Wissahickon Creek at the intersection of Whitpain Township, Upper Dublin Township and Ambler Borough, known as the BoRit asbestos site. This is the largest asbestos waste pile in the United States and it has never been properly dealt with. The site is hazardous to the health and environment of the communities living by it and needs to be cleaned up now!
Support The Safer Drinking Water Act
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.
Campaign Strategies
Regional Focus: Philadelphia
In our focus on Philadelphia we help municipalities in the Schuylkill River Watershed to strengthen their water protection regulations, are continuing to work with local residents in Ambler to see that a permanent solution is implemented, cleaning up a dangerous asbestos pile, focusing on sustainability and recycling, and are working to help residents monitor and test their air quaility.
Regional Focus: Pittsburgh
Combating air pollution in Allegheny County, organizing with residents in the municipalities across the Ohio River to reduce the pollution coming from Neville Island and ensure that industry is being a "good neighbor," working with residents of the Mon Valley who came to Clean Water Action with concerns about air pollution's impact on their health are just a part of our work in Pittsburgh.
Regional Focus: Allentown
Focusing on issues important to the Allentown and Eastern Pennsylvania region including stopping TCE contamination of air, water, and soil in Montgomery County, protecting streams in the greater Lehigh Valley area, protecting the Upper Perkiomen, and promoting effective stormwater management.
Protecting Drinking Water
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.