U.S. Congress and State Offices

Clean Water Action endorsed 155 candidates for federal and state offices in 2008, with 80 percent of them winning their elections. Below are the winning candidates plus a few still too close to call as of November 6.

Get Out The Vote!

On November 4^th our Environment will be on the ballot. Our vote will protect our lakes, rivers, and streams from dangerous pollution. Our vote will promote clean energy and green jobs. Our vote will challenge tax breaks to Big Oil.

Clean Water Action needs you to volunteer to Get out the Vote! We need you to contact our membership and tell them to vote. In a critical election like this one every vote counts; and we need them all!

Get out the Vote shifts are: Friday October 31, Saturday November 1, Sunday November 2, Monday November 3, Tuesday November 4

One PFC, PFOS, has contaminated sixteen lakes in three counties at high enough levels for the Minnesota Department of Health to issue new guidelines for how much fish people can safely eat.

Waters in seven states nationwide are contaminated by PFCs.

We All Have PFCs In Our Bodies

National studies show we all have PFOA in our bodies. The median level in the blood of the U.S. population is 5 ppb. In 3M workers, levels were shown as high as 115 ppb. These toxic chemicals stay in our bodies a long time - PFOA has a half life of 3.8 years and 3-5 years for PFOS.

PFOA

Toxicological studies found PFOA causes liver cancer and testicular cancer and may cause other types of cancer such as breast cancer.

In 2006, the U.S. EPA Scientific Advisory Panel recommended PFOA be classified a likely human carcinogen. (See Testimony of Samuel Yamin, MCEA (pdf) for source citations)