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WATER, FLOWERS, AND LIFE

May 28, 2026 | By Julie Wedge

This Water a Flower Day has me reflecting on how lucky I am that my husband has an incredibly green thumb. I can grow food and, in fairness, those plants flower, too. However, the beautiful explosion of colors in our yard all year long must be completely credited to my better half.

The Invisible Epidemic: How Diesel Pollution is Suffocating American Families

February 1, 2016 | By Ashley Flach

Clean Water Action co-leads the Coalition for Healthy Ports NY/NJ and has joined the national Moving Forward Network urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) to address global climate change caused by diesel emissions at our ports, warehouses, and highways across the country. Together, our goal is to gather hundreds of thousands of signatures to demand #ZeroEmissionsNow - sign the petition here.

Three power plant smoke stacks. Photo credit: martin33 / Shutterstock

Working the Legislature to Energize Rhode Island

January 28, 2016 | By David Gerraughty

Sometimes when you’re trying to get folks up at the statehouse to embrace big ideas for progressive change, you have to look for indirect signs of movement in your direction.

Stand up for us, not the chemical industry

January 28, 2016 | By Marley Kimmelman

Marley Kimmelman is an Environmental Health and Justice Intern with our Massachusetts office It was an unseasonably warm November day when I sat down in my political ecology class at Northeastern University. My professor, Danny Faber, an environmental justice champion in the Boston area, was showing

Street drain, stormwater runoff. Photo credit: Abramov Timur / Shutterstock

Failing to Manage Stormwater in Rhode Island

January 28, 2016 | By Lauren Carson

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation has been called out by the federal government for years of failure to comply with the Clean Water Act, neglecting its drainage systems and allowing runoff from highways to pollute more than 200 bodies of water in our state for years on end.