Clean Water Action
Appearance
Founded | 1972 |
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Location | |
Area served | United States |
President & CEO | Jeff Carter[1] |
Revenue | $8,240,346 (2015)[2] |
Website | cleanwateraction |
Clean Water Action is an American environmental advocacy group.501(c)(4) organization and is based in Washington, D.C.
History
The group was formed in 1972 by David Zwick as a grassroots and lobbying organization whose goal was to enact platforms delineated in the Zwick publication, Water Wasteland. To reach this goal, Zwick outlined a grassroots strategy of door-to-door
Environmental Protection Agency was failing to properly enforce the federal Superfund toxic waste cleanup program.[5]
Political advocacy
Clean Water Action has endorsed both causes and political actors. In 2008, Clean Water Action and
fracking wastewater to be discharged into the Monongahela River. The court ruled in favor of the plaintiff.[6][7] In 2012, the group supported the re-election of President Barack Obama.[8]
Clean Water Action also has been involved in campaigns to reduce the environmental impact of plastics through their support of California's Assembly Bill 888, which proposed to ban the use of plastic
Microbead–Free Waters Act of 2015. The group also supported Minneapolis's ordinance restricting the use of single-use plastic bags.[11][12]
See also
References
- ^ "Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund Announce New President & CEO | Clean Water Action". Clean Water Action. 23 January 2023.
- ^ "Internal Revenue Service Form 990" (PDF). Clean Water Action. Internal Revenue Service. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
- ^ Phillips, Ari (August 13, 2014). "This Leading Candidate For Texas Governor Really Doesn't Like Clean Water". Think Progress. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ "About Us". Clean Water Action. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ "Superfund Cleanups Termed Lax". The New York Times. November 24, 1987. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ "Victory in Fracking Wastewater Fight in PA". Ecowatch.com. 7 August 2013.
- ^ "NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL, WITH PREJUDICE, OF AMENDED NOTICE OF APPEAL" (PDF). Earthjustice.org. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
- ^ Samuelsohn, Darren; Goode, Darren (April 17, 2012). "Big green groups to back Obama". Politico. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
- ^ "EcoWatch". EcoWatch.
- ^ "Bill Text - AB-888 Waste management: plastic microbeads". Leginfo.legislature.ca.gov.
- ^ "In praise of Minneapolis' proposed plastic-bag ban". Startribune.com.
- ^ "Municode Library". Library.municode.com.
Further reading
- Zwick, David; Benstock, Marcy; Nader, Ralph (1971). Water Wasteland: Nader Task Force Report on Water Pollution. Center for Study of Responsive Law. OCLC 5753934.