Black History Month Clean Water Champion: Omesa Mokaya
Black History Month is a time to celebrate Black excellence. During February, Clean Water Action will spotlight Water Champions leading the charge to protect our water, environment, and health.
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“We Have to Create a Sense That There’s Enough for Us All” - Building the Just Transition to Offshore Wind in Salem
Neighbors and organizers with Salem Alliance for the Environment (SAFE) are collaborating with Clean Water and leading the efforts to make sure that the emerging offshore wind industry brings good, union jobs and a healthy tax base back to Salem’s diverse community.
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Clean Water 50 Stories: MA State Senator Jo Comerford
Meet MA State Senator Jo Comerford, a true environmental advocate leading the way to a clean, green, healthy future for us all. Senator Comerford has played important roles in the state legislature and has worked with Clean Water Action to prevent PFAS contamination in Massachusetts.
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REI--Will you put our health and planet first?
Recognizing this alarming public health and environmental issue, Clean Water Action and allies at the Mind the Store campaign have been urging REI and other retailers to ban PFAS in outdoor apparel. To date, there have been more than 110,000 petition signatures and emails from REI customers, letters from more than 100 local, state, and national organizations calling on the company to lead the outdoor apparel industry away from the entire class of PFAS.
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Clean Water 50 Stories: Luisa Santos
We’re thrilled to highlight the work of an inspiring woman that we’re proud to partner with! Meet Luisa Santos, a campaign researcher at Boston-based Community Labor United (CLU), who has worked with Clean Water through the Green Justice Coalition.
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PFAS, the “forever chemicals” made simple
In our work at Clean Water Action we throw around a lot of statistics and chemical names which, if you’re not used to hearing them, all sound pretty much like “ethyl-methyl-bad-stuff.” Sometimes that’s really all you need to know: “there’s something bad there – stay away.”
But one group of
Reducing Plastic Waste and COVID-19
A switch back to single-use plastics does nothing to stop COVID-19, but it does undermine recent efforts to reduce our reliance on a material that pollutes our world in every stage of its life: manufacture, disposal, and eventual breakdown in our oceans.
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