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Clean Water Action
Founded1972
Type501(c)(4)
HeadquartersWashington, D.C.
Area served
United States
President & CEO
Robert Wendelgass
Budget
$8,240,346 (2015)[1]
Websitewww.cleanwateraction.org

Clean Water Action is an American environmental advocacy and lobby group.[2] Created in 1972, Clean Water Action focuses on canvassing to gain support for political issues, candidates, and funding. It is a 501(c)(4) organization.

History[edit]

During the late 1960s water pollution was spreading in many parts of the country, with a burning Cuyahoga River in northeast Ohio and biologically dead Lake Erie among the visible examples of wider problems.[3] David Zwick was a young law school student when Ralph Nader recruited him to a task force researching water pollution problems. After a two-year tour of America's most polluted waters, Zwick authored Water Wasteland and then founded Clean Water Action to address the issues outlined in his book.[4]

Zwick founded Clean Water Action in 1972 as a grassroots and lobbying organization. The fledgling organization's goal was to enact many of Water Wasteland's platforms of recommended changes into law. To reach this goal, Zwick outlined a grassroots strategy of door-to-door canvassing and public education.[5] Zwick contributed to the Clean Water Act.[5]

In 1986, Clean Water Action, the United States Public Interest Research Group and the National Campaign Against Toxic Hazards published a report claiming the Environmental Protection Agency was failing to properly enforce the federal Superfund toxic waste cleanup program.[6]

Political Advocacy[edit]

Endorsements[edit]

Clean Water Action endorsed Democratic President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012.[7]

Agriculture[edit]

Clean Water Action has supported stricter rules on discharging pesticides into waterways.[8]

Clean Water Action supported California's Senate Bill 623 to create the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund. The fund is generated through a one-dollar-per-month water-bill tax on Californian households. Low income households are exempt from this tax.[9]

The Clean Water Act[edit]

Clean Water Action is one of several plaintiffs suing Scott Pruitt and the Environmental Protection Agency over alleged violations of procedural law regarding the Clean Water Act Effluent Limitations Guidelines.[10]

The Clean Water Rule[edit]

Clean Water Action supports the Clean Water Rule.[11]

Hydraulic Fracturing[edit]

Clean Water Action opposed hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, on public lands in Texas citing concerns over water contamination and the potential for damage to dam infrastructure.[12][13]

In 2008, Clean Water Action and Earth Justice brought a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for not complying with state and federal water protection laws in a plan to allow partially treated fracking wastewater to be discharged into the Monongahela River. The court ruled in favor of the plaintiff.[14][15]

In 2012, Clean Water Action joined a number of other environmental groups to urge Pennsylvania and EPA officials to enforce water protection laws against EQT Production Company over a 50+ million gallon fracking wastewater pit that was leaking into groundwater and surface water.[16]

Flame Retardants[edit]

Clean Water Action has advocated for laws to restrict the use of flame retardants in upholstered furniture, clothing, and other products in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Minnesota, and California.[17][18][19][20] Clean Water Action has also worked with public health interest groups to release reports and consumer guides about flame retardant chemicals in consumer products.[21][22]

Plastics[edit]

Clean Water Action has been involved in campaigns to reduce plastic pollution including California's Assembly Bill 888 to ban the use of plastic microbeads in rinse-off personal care products;[23][24] Minneapolis's ordinance to restrict the use of single-use plastic bags;[25][26] and a 'trash trawl' of Narragansett Bay to raise awareness about plastic pollution.[27]

Water Conservation[edit]

Clean Water Action has supported laws to require stricter water efficiency standards, has opposed the sale of aquifers to business, and has supported waterway and wetland restoration.[28]

Affiliates, Subsidiaries, and Coalitions[edit]

Clean Water Fund is a 501(c)(3) subsidiary of Clean Water Action.[29]

Coalitions[edit]

Healthy Legacy[30] Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families[31]


See also[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

  • David Zwick, Water Wasteland: Ralph Nader's study group report on water pollution, (Bantam Books, 1972).

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Internal Revenue Service Form 990" (PDF). Clean Water Action. Internal Revenue Service. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  2. ^ Phillips, Ari (August 13, 2014). "This Leading Candidate For Texas Governor Really Doesn't Like Clean Water". Think Progress. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  3. ^ Dykstra, Peter (December 15, 2008). "History of environmental movement full of twists, turns". CNN. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  4. ^ "David Zwick". Harvard University Institute of Politics. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  5. ^ a b "About Us". Clean Water Action. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  6. ^ "Superfund Cleanups Termed Lax". New York Times. Associated Press. November 24, 1987. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  7. ^ Samuelsohn, Darren; Goode, Darren (April 17, 2012). "Big green groups to back Obama". Politico. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  8. ^ https://www.defenders.org/publications/letter_opposing_s._718_and_h.r._872.pdf
  9. ^ Johnson, Tim (18 August 2017). "Ag industry is stepping up for safe drinking water" – via Sacramento Bee.
  10. ^ https://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/files/1%20%202017-05-03%20ELG%20Complaint.pdf
  11. ^ "EPA issues new rule to protect small waterways".
  12. ^ https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/energy/dirty_energy_development/oil_and_gas/pdfs/Letter_to_BLM_Army_Corps_Bureau_of_Rec_2-9-16.pdf
  13. ^ "Feds Pull 31,000 Texas Acres From April Fossil Fuel Auction Due to Concerns Over Fracking Impacts to Land, Water, Climate". www.biologicaldiversity.org.
  14. ^ "Victory in Fracking Wastewater Fight in PA". 7 August 2013.
  15. ^ https://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/files/Fracking_Wastewater_Settlement.pdf
  16. ^ http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/EQT-Letter-AG-PA-DEP-EPA-Final-PDF.pdf
  17. ^ http://www.imusenvironmentalhealth.org/assets/38/7/SB_763_(Leno)_Childrens_Products_Fact_Sheet_4_6_15_(2).pdf
  18. ^ "Bill Would Ban Furniture with Toxic Flame-Retardants".
  19. ^ "Senate Passes Bill to Ban Toxic Flame Retardants". 27 May 2016.
  20. ^ https://www.iatp.org/sites/default/files/421_2_97322.pdf
  21. ^ https://www.conservationminnesota.org/redesign/wp-content/uploads/SafeMattressReport-final.pdf
  22. ^ http://www.ceh.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Kids-Furniture-Report-Press.pdf
  23. ^ "EcoWatch". EcoWatch.
  24. ^ "Bill Text - AB-888 Waste management: plastic microbeads". leginfo.legislature.ca.gov.
  25. ^ "In praise of Minneapolis' proposed plastic-bag ban".
  26. ^ "Municode Library". library.municode.com.
  27. ^ "Rising Tide of Plastic Changing Southern N.E.'s Landscape".
  28. ^ "Hustle and flow: Here's who really controls California's water".
  29. ^ "Who We Are". 4 February 2016.
  30. ^ "Our coalition". Healthy Legacy.
  31. ^ "Our coalition - Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families". saferchemicals.org.

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