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Letter to Congress: 150+ Organizations in Support of Low Income Household Water Assistance Program Funding

October 18, 2023 | By Clean Water Action
On behalf of the more than 150 undersigned water associations, environmental, low-income, and other public interest advocates, and labor unions, we urge Congress to provide FY24 funding for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Low Income Household Water Assistance Program. Without action to continue this critical program, hundreds of thousands of low-income households could lose access to essential water service.
Graphic of NJ's Skip the Stuff Fact Sheet with plastic fork and spoon
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New Jersey Needs to Skip the Stuff: Fact Sheet

October 18, 2023 | By Marta Young
It is estimated that 40 billion individual single-use plastic utensils are discarded every year in the United States. Clean Water Action's ReThink Disposable program is working to stop plastic trash advocating for a "Skip the Stuff" bill in New Jersey!
Clean Water Action Currents | Spring 2024
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Clean Water Currents | Fall 2023

September 25, 2023 | By Clean Water Action
In This Issue: Congress Should Protect People, Not Polluters! | Devastating Sackett v. EPA Supreme Court Decision Puts All Water At Risk | Lead In Drinking Water - Putting Lead Service Lines Behind Us | PFAS Chemicals - Taking the Burden Off Communities and Our Health | EPA Proposes to Expand Regulation of Toxic Coal Ash | State and Regional News
Coming Together For Equitable Public Power
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Coming Together For Equitable Public Power

August 19, 2023 | By Clean Water Fund
A number of communities are taking action to explore what it would take to break from investor-owned utilities who are failing to meet community reliability, sustainability, and affordability expectations and instead form a new public power utilities. Over two years and across multiple states, the Public Power Project collaboration explored the perspective of campaigners, public officials, staff of existing municipal power utilities, and communities already served by public power. Through landscape analysis, interviews, and focus groups this report shares insights gained about how public power, in its incumbent and emergent forms, can be equitable, just, and democratic.
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