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Accidents Waiting to Happen
Across America, thousands of facilities that store or move oil, toxic chemicals or coal ash are located near waterways. These facilities are accidents waiting to happen.
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State of Electric School Buses
Accidents Waiting to Happen: Hazardous Materials by Rail
Accidents Waiting to Happen: Oil Pipelines
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Timeline of clean water milestones
Milestones: America’s streams regain protection
Environment America has worked to establish, defend and restore federal clean water protections for the country's streams and wetlands despite opposition.
Milestones: A race to protect Mass. rivers is won
MASSPIRG joined the coalition behind the Rivers Protections Act, using grassroots advocacy to rally support for a strong and effective version of the bill.
Milestones: NJ’s ‘polluters’ playground’ exposed
After exposing water pollution permit violations by industrial and sewage treatment plants, NJPIRG staff worked to win the Clean Water Enforcement Act in 1990.
Accidents Waiting to Happen: Coal Ash
Hundreds of coal ash pits and ponds sit near the banks of American waterways, threatening toxic spills that can cause long-term damage to the environment and public health.