Clean Water Action supports the ramp up of energy efficiency programs to create quality green
jobs, cut energy costs for consumers, and reduce global warming pollution in Massachusetts. See
Governor Deval Patrick's press
release for more information. 

Kudos to Governor Deval Patrick!  In a step forward towards a victory for the public health and the environment, Patrick restored funding for the agencies involved in implementing the Toxics Use Reduction Act (TURA) program in his proposed fiscal year 2011 budget issued January 27th 2010.

On Monday November 2nd, 2009 Clean Water Action and our partners in the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow turned out in force for a hearing on the Safer Alternatives Bill at the Massachusetts State House.  The hearing was held by the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture with Chairmen Representative William Straus and Senator Anthony Petruccelli presiding.

A Consumer's Union investigation found Bisphenol A, a hormone-disrupting chemical, in several major food and products some of which were marked "BPA free."

Clean Water Action's Mia Davis is interviewed in this report on the NBC Nightly News.

Learn more about BPA in the report Baby's Toxic Bottle

Thanks to an executive order issued by Governor Deval Patrick on October 27th, 2009 from now on the Massachusetts state agencies will be using their purchasing power to purchase products and services that are less toxic and more environmentally sustainable.  The executive order directs the executive branch office and agencies to "...reduce their impact on the environment and enhance public health by procuring Environmentally Preferable Products and services (EPPs) whenever such products and services are readily available, perform to satisfactory standards, and represent best value."

With the support of our members and local leaders, Clean Water Action has worked for many years to modernize pollution standards at existing power plants in New England. Although we've seen significant pollution reductions during that time from coal-fired power plants like Mt. Tom Station in Holyoke, this is only part of the recipe for cleaner air.

We are pleased to introduce our partnership with WesternMassSaves.com - a new way to help you save money, manage your energy use and help reduce the pollution caused by power plants, the largest stationary sources of air pollution in the region.

One hundred and eighty-two thousand women will contract breast cancer this year.  Forty-one thousand will die of it; every eleven minutes we will lose another woman to the disease.  This documentary film makes these statistics real by following one woman who is diagnosed, treated and recovers from breast cancer.  Robin demands to know why she got breast cancer, posing questions about their exposure to environmental toxics.  Her intimate story brings the visually hidden experience of breast cancer into light, and motivates us to ask why so much illness and why don't we know how to stop it?

Join Clean Water Action, Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow and Director/Producer Sabrina McCormick for an exclusive showing of this powerful film.

Wednesday, October 14th, 7:00 PM
Coolidge Corner Theater

Transforming our built environment, restoring healthy communities:
An ecologist's plan

Guest Speaker: Patrick Lucey

Sunday, September 13th 6:30-9:00 PM
Wilson Chapel, Andover-Newton Theological School

In the United States and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, more than 13 million and 200,000 diesel vehicles respectively help build our roads and buildings and transport our goods and citizens. However, the fine particle pollution (PM 2.5) from diesel emissions shortens the lives of an estimated 21,000 people nationwide every year. The cancer risk from diesel exhaust is 7.5 times higher than the total cancer risk from all other 133 air toxins tracked by the EPA combined. The asthma rate in certain schools in Massachusetts exceeds 20 percent and diesel pollution contributes greatly to lung cancer, heart disease, bronchitis, strokes, and respiratory complications of Commonwealth residents.

Clean Water Action Massachusetts had a banner year for local elections in 2008. Eighteen of the 20 candidates that we endorsed in the Massachusetts legislature won their races in the Primary on September 17th and the General Election on November 4th.