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Colorado Currents | Summer 2012
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Drilling and fracking are marching across the Front Range of Colorado, into suburban neighborhoods beside homes, schools, and playgrounds. Local environmental groups like Clean Water Action are being inundated with requests from residents to help protect their homes and families. Drilling and fracking for oil and gas can have serious impacts, including:
summer 2012 edition
oil and gas drilling and fracking threaten public health
Drilling and fracking are marching across the Front Range of Colorado, into suburban neighborhoods beside homes, schools, and playgrounds. Local environmental groups like Clean Water Action are being inundated with requests from residents to help protect their homes and families. Drilling and fracking for oil and gas can have serious impacts, including:- Water and air quality degradation
- Decreased property values and impacts to mortgages
- Wildlife habitat and natural area degradation
- Degradation of river flows and our limited water resources
- Increases in noise levels and truck traffic near drilling areas
- Potentially causing earthquakes
New Jersey Currents | Summer 2012
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summer 2012 edition
Sizzlin' Summertime Action
The past year brought significant progress on the New Jersey Environmental Federation’s top environmental campaigns. Those campaigns are now gearing up to continue the momentum this summer and fall.
In June, the NJ Environmental Federation held a successful lobby day in Trenton with Environment New Jersey, Food & Water Watch, the Delaware Riverkeeper, and the Sierra Club. More than two hundred people turned out to spend the day lobbying legislators, attending committee hearings and joining a clean energy rally. Read more
Texas Currents | Summer 2012
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As Texas moves deeper into another hot summer and closer to the 2013
legislative session, Clean Water Action is urging state lawmakers to get
behind a comprehensive water conservation strategy. The Texas Water
Development’s Board “Water for Texas 2012” plan concludes that the state
will not have enough water to meet future needs, given current patterns
of consumption and projected population growth through 2060. Rising
temperatures, declining rainfall and greater evaporation rates from
surface water will increase stress on Texas waterways, including Central
Texas rivers and reservoirs. Action is needed now to secure this
region’s future water needs.
summer 2012 edition
Inside
- Water Conservation
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From the State Director
- Water Drinkers Catch a Break
- Thank you HEB
- Getting Serious about Solar
- A Better BlueBonnet?
- Delaying Clean Energy Again
- Other Ways to Get Involved
- Award Winning Conservation
- Thanks to our sponsors
time to get serious about water conservation
As Texas moves deeper into another hot summer and closer to the 2013
legislative session, Clean Water Action is urging state lawmakers to get
behind a comprehensive water conservation strategy. The Texas Water
Development’s Board “Water for Texas 2012” plan concludes that the state
will not have enough water to meet future needs, given current patterns
of consumption and projected population growth through 2060. Rising
temperatures, declining rainfall and greater evaporation rates from
surface water will increase stress on Texas waterways, including Central
Texas rivers and reservoirs. Action is needed now to secure this
region’s future water needs.
Chesapeake Currents | Summer 2012
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summer 2012 edition
Protecting Maryland’s Water
We won! Governor Martin O’Malley’s signing of the Watershed Protection
and Restoration Act culminated years of efforts by Clean Water Action
and allies. This Act will support water quality protections for urban
and suburban streams and rivers statewide and strengthens Maryland’s
commitments to Chesapeake Bay restoration. The measure will cut
pollution from streets and parking lots and provides incentives for
reducing impervious paved areas which are a major pollution source. Read more
Clean Water Currents | Spring 2012
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Administration has helped to block many of the worst proposals from becoming law.
spring 2012 edition
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obama administration steps up
Making progress despite anti-environment Congress
Administration has helped to block many of the worst proposals from becoming law.
EPA Action on Fracking:
Safe Drinking Water Act tools being brought to bear
In April, EPA finalized controls on air pollution caused by new oil and
gas operations, including fracking. In May, the agency proposed the
first federal Safe Drinking Water Act protections around fracking.