Tag: clean water
Thanks to the Infrastructure bill, the US will work on replacing...
“The American Jobs Plan creates jobs replacing 100% of the nation’s lead pipes and service lines so every American, so every child – can turn on the faucet and be certain to drink clean water.”
“Shut down those tanks”: anger grows in Hawaii after U.S. Navy...
“The Navy assured us and promised our state Water Resource Management Commission that this would never happen, and yet here we are.”
First-of-its-kind study measures fracking’s impact on nearby surface water quality
“Our work provides the first large-sample evidence showing that hydraulic fracturing is related to the quality of nearby surface waters for several U.S. shales.”
How clean water is linked with environmental and human health
When the world works together, a brighter and greener future is possible.
Watch: Viral animated video shows how just a fraction of Bill...
“You’d have to save more than a $100,000 per year for a MILLION years to get there. So where's that wealth tax?”
2 million Americans lack clean water access, especially Native Americans
“It’s hard to imagine that in America today, people are living without basics like safe and reliable water service.”
Another Flint? Newark, NJ, faces public health crisis over lead contamination...
Thousands of residents in Newark, New Jersey, remain unable to drink their tap water in an enduring public health nightmare. Lead contamination...
Trump’s EPA to roll back Obama-era clean water regulations
Today the Trump administration is expected to repeal an Obama-era clean water regulation that had limited the amount of pollution and chemicals...
‘Astonishing’ Texas legal Win tops decades of clean-water heroism
Precedents Set: Big $$ Penalty Fueled by Key Citizen Evidence
Sometimes, unstoppable anti-pollution champions must get their feet...
Flint water crisis ongoing: ‘We are still suffering’
"Four years later, my son, for example, we still can't safely use our water, he can't take a bath without telling me it burns."
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Clinging bitterly to guns and religion
What will it take to convince Americans to turn their backs on empire and war before it’s too late?
‘Enough is enough’: Australian PM throws support behind movement to free Julian Assange
A growing number of politicians are calling on the United States to drop its case against WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange.
When 3 men richer than 165 million people, Sanders says working class must ‘come...
Big-money special interests "want to divide us up," said the independent senator at a living wage rally in South Carolina, "and we are determined to bring working people together."
Brazil’s beef industry linked to deforestation in Amazon
800 million trees were cut down in six years due to cattle ranching, which accounts for 80 percent of current deforestation throughout the Amazon.
AI Genie is out of the bottle—UN should take the challenge to make it...
The global community should be comforted knowing that the leadership of the United Nations already knows well what steps are to be taken at this juncture.