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Members Edition
July 2023
How do we stop the plastic pollution crisis? We stop fossil fuels!
More than 90% of plastics made globally come from fossil fuels. Making plastic involves high heat and lots of electricity — both generated using fossil fuels. To learn more about this connection, and how plastic harms our planet and our health at every phase of its life lifecycle, check out our new blog post: Tracing Plastic’s Toxic Lifecycle.
We are mobilizing to fight fracking in Pennsylvania! Our Pennsylvania organizing team has been working hard to mobilize people and educate legislators in order to pass a 2,500-foot setback for oil and gas wells from residences and businesses. While the oil and gas lobbyists are throwing road blocks our way, we refuse to let those in the halls of power off the hook from protecting Pennsylvanians from the fracking industry’s exploitation.
Save the Hudson Bill passes in New York! Thanks to the hard work our staff, volunteers, and allies, both the New York House and Senate passed the Save the Hudson River bill during a special session. This legislation will make it illegal for radioactive waste from the Indian Point nuclear plant to be dumped into the Hudson River. Urge Governor Hochul to sign it!
Did you know that the average person consumes about a credit card amount of plastic every week?
This is due to microplastic pollution found in our air, drinking water, and household items made from plastic! We’re working to stop plastics at the source, taking on the fossil fuel industry and halting plastic production.
GET INVOLVED
Read the summer print edition of Livable Future Now! Our quarterly print newsletter includes a special message from Managing Director of Organizing, Emily Wurth, a look at our work on the ground in communities surrounding the East Palestine train derailment disaster, and more!
July Event: Art and Activism You’re invited to our monthly virtual webinar series, Creative Activism: Using Art to Protect Our Planet, on July 19. Join us for a discussion about how art can be a powerful tool for social change and meet two artists who use their art for environmental activism.
Food & Water Watch and its affiliated organization, Food & Water Action, are advocacy groups with a common mission to protect our food, water, and climate.
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