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Most Recent NewsEnvironment Massachusetts Warns That Buzzards Bay Is At Risk of Increased Pollution 2/10/2010Streams and wetlands in Massachusetts are at risk of increased pollution, according to a report released today by Environment Massachusetts, Courting Disaster: How the Supreme Court Has Broken the Clean Water Act and Why Congress Must Fix It. One case study highlighted in this report is a wetland area around Buzzards Bay that is at risk of loosing Clean Water Act protections. The report also provides 30 case studies demonstrating how the federal Clean Water Act is broken and calling on Representative Capuano to fix it. Alewife Reservation Leading the Way in Clean Water: Federal Legislation Would Extend Protections to All Wetlands 1/12/2010In 1972, the Clean Water Act was passed in a historic promise to make all of our lakes and rivers safe for fishing and swimming by 1985. Today, 38 years later, our waters still lack the protections they need: nearly half the waters in the U.S. are considered too polluted to be safe. States Leading Fight to Solve Global Warming 12/03/2009The United States, long considered a laggard in addressing global warming, is poised to achieve large reductions in global warming pollution thanks to clean energy policies adopted over the past decade by state governments Most Recent ReportsCourting Disaster: How the Supreme Court Has Broken the Clean Water Act and Why Congress Must Fix It 2/10/2010The report details the threats to America’s waters and highlights the urgent need for Congress to act immediately and restore full Clean Water Act protections to our waters. Generating Failure: How Building Nuclear Power Plants Would Set America Back in the Race Against Global Warming 11/17/2009Far from being a solution to global warming, nuclear power will actually set America back in the race to reduce pollution. Nuclear power is too slow and too expensive to make enough of a difference in the next two decades. Moreover, nuclear power is not necessary to provide clean, carbon-free electricity for the long haul. Wasting Our Waterways: Toxic Industrial Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act 10/21/2009Industrial facilities continue to dump millions of pounds of toxic chemicals into America’s rivers, streams, lakes and ocean waters each year—threatening both the environment and human health. Our Issues in the NewsClean energy efforts making a difference 11/18/2009It’s a small step, but one members of Environment Massachusetts hope can be maintained. Rethink policy on river water 10/18/2009THE STATE has a new policy on how much water towns can use from rivers, but it could leave some, like the Ipswich and the upper Charles, so depleted that fish would be imperiled. Officials should go back to the drawing board and make sure that their definition of what would constitute a “safe yield’’ would leave enough water for the trout and other wildlife that are ever more rare in Eastern Massachusetts. Boxer-Kerry compromises 10/17/2009THE GLOBE’S Oct. 16 editorial "Don’t water down climate bill" couldn’t be more timely. |