In this episode, we chat with Elizabeth Saunders, MA State Director for Clean Water Action and Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, and Kathryn Rodgers, a scientist at Silent Spring Institute, about their recent success in passing legislation to restrict the use of toxic flame retardant chemicals in consumer products in Massachusetts. You'll learn what these chemicals are, why they are used, where they are found, and how you can best protect your family from harm. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/clean-water-action/message ..read more

Today we chat with drinking water, environmental justice and social justice advocate Maureo Fernández y Mora, Associate State Director for Clean Water Action in Massachusetts. We discuss the health harms of lead exposure, how this affects impacted communities, and what actions we can take to protect our families and health from toxic lead exposure at the tap. www.cleanwater.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/clean-water-action/message ..read more

Today, we are doing a special podcast focused on all the ways you can support Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund to help power our clean water and environmental programs in 2021! Today, we chat with Jon Scott from Clean Water's national development and communications team about how Covid-19 has impacted us, how it has made all of the work we do on water and our health even more important, and why donations right now are so critical. To make a year-end gift, visit www.cleanwater.org/yearend or email jscott@cleanwater.org to discuss more ways to get involved. #WeAllLiveDownstream --- Send i ..read more

Welcome to our Elections 2020 Podcast Takeover: Part II! Clean Water Action just celebrated a huge and historic win when voters decided Joe Biden will be the next U.S. President. Voters turned out in unprecedented numbers and we helped elect Clean Water champions on the federal, state and local level. Now we are preparing for a new Biden Administration. Listen to our team of Clean Water experts discuss exactly what happened, how Clean Water voters made a difference, and how we can fight disinformation and help shape a stronger democracy for our future. Featuring Clean Water Action's Bob Wendel ..read more

Elections got you worried? No need to stress - we'll help you get through the chaos! Welcome to our ELECTIONS 2020 PODCAST TAKEOVER with Clean Water Action's national team of experts: host Michael Kelly - National Communications Director, Bob Wendelgass - President & CEO, Lynn Thorp - National Campaigns Director and Mary Brady-Enerson - Michigan Director. With the Election less than a week away, we thought we'd sift through the noise to bring you more meaningful conversations and provide you with the valuable information you need to be an empowered #CleanWaterVoter. We'll discuss high earl ..read more

In today's episode we talk with Grace Lee, the Director of Clean Water Action's ReThink Disposable program which works with local governments, businesses and institutions, and consumers to minimize single use disposable packaging in food service to conserve resources, prevent waste and ocean litter pollution. We chat about the problems with plastic pollution and its link to climate change and how we can all work together to prevent waste before it starts! For more information, visit www.rethinkdisposable.org. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/clean-water-action/message ..read more

In today's episode, we chat with Kim Gaddy, Clean Water Action's Environmental Justice Organizer, about the new landmark Environmental Justice law in New Jersey. Kim tells us about her many years of activism and what motivates her as an organizer for change in her home town of Newark and across the nation to ensure environmental justice and clean water for all. For more information on her work, visit: www.cleanwater.org/campaign/environmental-justice-equity --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/clean-water-action/message ..read more

In today's episode we chat with Bob Wendelgass, President & CEO of Clean Water Action about the organization's history, challenges & successes, what's at stake in this upcoming election, and an exciting upcoming national virtual event on Oct 14. www.cleanwater.org/annual-event. Clean Water Action is a national non-profit organization working for clean, safe, affordable water, prevention of health threatening pollution, creation of environmentally safe jobs and businesses, and empowerment of people to make democracy work. www.cleanwateraction.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anc ..read more

In today's episode we chat with Mary Brady-Enerson, the Michigan Director of Clean Water Action, about the upcoming election and Clean Water Action's endorsement of Joe Biden for President and Kamala Harris for Vice President. We talk about Mary's work to get out the vote in her battleground state of Michigan, why it's important to stop the Trump Administration's reckless attacks on critical clean water and environmental protections, and why it's so important to vote (and how you can vote in-person and by mail). Clean Water Action is a national non-profit organization working for clean, safe ..read more

In today’s episode, we chat with Laura Kastenbauer, Clean Water Action's Field to Fork Organizer, about her work to re-shape the state of our current food system dominated by corporate agriculture. Clean Water Action is a national non-profit organization working for clean, safe, affordable water, prevention of health threatening pollution, creation of environmentally safe jobs and businesses, and empowerment of people to make democracy work. www.cleanwateraction.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/clean-water-action/message ..read more