Environment America’s 2024 highlights
Five highlights of how our advocacy and action in 2024 put our country and our world on a greener, healthier, more sustainable path.
Clean water
If we want a greener, healthier world we need to protect our rivers, lakes and streams.
Clean water is vital to ecosystems, to our health, and our quality of life. But too many of our rivers, lakes and streams are vulnerable to pollution. This pollution, along with outdated infrastructure – like lead pipes in our schools – puts our health at risk. We need to work together to protect our waters.
The Latest on Clean water
Getting the lead out, 10 years after Flint
Dredge Spoil Dump by the Bay? Decade Plus Legal Fight in Court Notches Win Against NJDOT Attempt To Construct Dump along the Barnegat Bay
Updates
Lobby day secures bipartisan support for the Plastic Pellet Free Water Act
Clean water groups urge Congress to tackle microplastics
Ending mercury pollution should be a no-brainer
What You Can Do
Tell your U.S. senators: Hold polluters responsible for the contamination of farmland with PFAS-tainted fertilizer
Featured Resources
Accidents Waiting to Happen: Factory Farms
Accidents Waiting to Happen
Accidents Waiting to Happen: Hazardous Materials by Rail
Accidents Waiting to Happen: Oil Pipelines
The Latest
Type
Environment Jersey Joins Rep. Frank Pallone To Call For Full BEACH Act Funding To Test Shore Water Quality
Environment New Jersey joins calls for a stronger BEACH Act to provide full funding to test our beach waters at the Jersey Shore for bacteria pollution
Statement: EPA tells power plants to clean up their act
New rules will slash toxic pollution, improve health
Statement: White House launches new effort to protect clean water
Biden initiative would protect many wetlands and rivers from pollution
On Earth Day, Environmental Advocates Outline Plastics Reduction Agenda
Environmental advocates outline an Earth Day plastics reduction action agenda to reduce plastics in our environment.
Statement: New rule will aid PFAS clean-ups
EPA lists two toxic PFAS chemicals under Superfund law