Clean Water Action

Clean Water Action
Founded 1972
Location
Area served
United States
President & CEO
Robert Wendelgass
Revenue
$9,259,868 (2013)[1]
Website www.cleanwateraction.org

Clean Water Action is an American environmental advocacy group.[2] Created in 1972, Clean Water Action focuses on canvassing and gaining support for political issues and candidates. It is a 501(c)(4) organization.

History

During the late 1960s water pollution was spreading in many parts of the country, with a burning Cuyahoga River in northeast Ohio and biologically dead Lake Erie among the visible examples of wider problems.[3] David Zwick was a young law school student when Ralph Nader recruited him to a task force researching water pollution problems. After a two-year tour of America's most polluted waters, Zwick authored Water Wasteland and then founded Clean Water Action to address the issues outlined in his book.[4]

Zwick founded Clean Water Action in 1972 as a grassroots and lobbying organization. The fledgling organization's goal was to enact many of Water Wasteland's platforms of recommended changes into law. To reach this goal, Zwick outlined a grassroots strategy of door-to-door canvassing and public education.[5] Zwick contributed to the Clean Water Act.[5]

In 1986, Clean Water Action, the United States Public Interest Research Group and the National Campaign Against Toxic Hazards published a report claiming the Environmental Protection Agency was failing to properly enforce the federal Superfund toxic waste cleanup program.[6]

Political advocacy

Clean Water Action endorsed Democratic President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012.[7] Clean Water Action opposes hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking.[8]

See also

Bibliography

References

  1. "Internal Revenue Service Form 990" (PDF). GuideStar. Internal Revenue Service. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  2. Phillips, Ari (August 13, 2014). "This Leading Candidate For Texas Governor Really Doesn’t Like Clean Water". Think Progress. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  3. Dykstra, Peter (December 15, 2008). "History of environmental movement full of twists, turns". CNN. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  4. "David Zwick". Harvard University Institute of Politics. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  5. 1 2 "About Us". Clean Water Action. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  6. "Superfund Cleanups Termed Lax". New York Times. Associated Press. November 24, 1987. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  7. Samuelsohn, Darren; Goode, Darren (April 17, 2012). "Big green groups to back Obama". Politico. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  8. Wilber, Tom (November 23, 2015). "The Promise of Fracking: Lessons from Pennsylvania". Press and Sun Bulletin. Gannett. Retrieved 3 December 2015.

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