Women and Two-Spirit individuals, youth, Elders and Knowledge Holders all hold important duties and responsibilities to water. Each of their voices and stories must be uplifted and empowered in any conversation surrounding water. For Indigenous Peoples, water sustains health, spirituality,…
Examining Section 401 of the Clean Water Act – Clean Water Action
Clean Water Action is celebrating our 50th birthday this year and the anniversary of the Clean Water Act which our founder, the late David Zwick, helped to craft and pass in 1972. For 50 years, the Clean Water A [from Clean Water Action]
Clean Water Action supports the Environmental Justice for All Act | Letter to Natural Resources Committee Leadership – Clean Water Action
The Environmental Justice for All Act (H.R. 2021), introduced by Rep Raul Grijalva and Rep Donald McEachin, is a long overdue package of reforms that will help address the history of environmental injustice that has led to undue burdens of pollution on people of color and low-income communities. [from Clean Water Action]
Keeping an Eye on Justice40 – Clean Water Action
Justice40 is not perfect. Its primary challenges remain consistent with that of environmental justice issues more broadly: they are multifaceted, interconnected, and complicated. However, it is an opportunity to take these challenges on, knowing that the financial and federal support is there to begin remediating America's history of exploitation of places and people. [from Clean […]