Learn more on the PhillyRecyclingPays web site about getting rewards for recycling.

Thanks to several years of pressure by Clean Water Action and our members, the City of Philadelphia just announced that it is bringing RecycleBank's Rewards for Recycling program to your neighborhood.

This program provides reward points every time you recycle. You can then redeem your points for coupons to local stores - grocery, pharmacies, clothing, etc. - physical items or donations to your favorite charity.

Norma Fiorentino is the resident of Dimock, Pa., and leaseholder with Cabot Oil and Gas whose water well famously blew up on New Year's Day 2009. Since then, she's not been using her water for drinking or cooking.

Hear her story in her own words. Clean Water Action is working with local people who have come to realize that the cost is too great to let Natural Gas Drilling proceed without close scrutiny by the Commonwealth.

According to the United States Geological Survey, the Marcellus Shale Formation, which stretches across 9 states and into Canada, is believed to contain up to 50 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas. Potentially, two thousand natural gas wells could be drilled across northern and western Pennsylvania in the coming years.

U.S. Congress and State Offices

Clean Water Action endorsed 234 candidates for federal and state offices in 2008, with 84 percent of them winning their elections. Below are the winning candidates plus one still too call. 

Clean Water Action has endorsed a candidate in the Presidential race and in Congressional and state legislative races across Pennsylvania.

Want to know how your state Representative and Senator votes on the environment? Download our Pennsylvania Environmental Scorecard (pdf, 560 kb) and find out!

Clean Water Action and Sierra Club have scored all Pennsylvania legislators on their votes on air quality, clean energy, transportation, open space, and more. Votes scored covered both 2007 and 2008.

Get the Pennsylvania Environmental Scorecard (pdf, 560 kb)

Clean Water Action has endorsed a candidate in both the Presidential race and in Congressional races around the country.  
Update (November 7, 2008: Find out which of our endorsed candidates on the state and federal levels won their elections.)

Clean Water Fund is helping municipalities in Southeastern Pennsylvania adopt effective stormwater management ordinances to protect water resources.

Clean Water Action is working with citizen groups and State Representative Todd Eachus to prevent developers from using dredge spoils from river and harbor deepening projects in PA, NJ, NY and MD to fill in an abandoned mine pit in the City of Hazleton. After the closing of the mine in the 1940s, the City had used the property as a landfill. While there is no comprehensive list of what was dumped there, industrial electrical capacitors have been removed from the site, leading people to wonder if other, potentially hazardous items remain underground.