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| 9/16/2003 | |
| The 1999 Clean Water Enforcement and Pollution Prevention Act (CWEA) has improved Clean Water Act compliance dramatically in the Bay-Delta region and across the state in its first few years. However, a major loophole—the fact that CWEA does not penalize dischargers who fail to report their discharges to the state— continues to compromise the effectiveness of the law. | |
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| 8/2/2006 | |
| New pollution tests reveal a new perchlorate ‘pulse’ that threatens to spread to Rialto drinking water wells. | |
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| 7/7/2006 | |
| The San Joaquin River, a signature California waterway, is severely polluted by a host of contaminants. Newly released tests of water and soil in the San Joaquin River system by University of California scientists and agricultural operations reveal that pesticide pollution in California’s second longest river and its tributaries is widespread and at high concentrations. | |
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| 7/15/1999 | |
| This report finds that the regional water boards of California are failing to adequately implement the federal Clean Water Act - one of the nation’s most important environmental laws. | |
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| 6/8/2007 | |
| Perchlorate, the major ingredient in rocket fuel, pollutes the drinking wate supplies of Rialto, CA. This policy brief, submitted to the State Water Board, outlines the policy case for cleanup of the contamination. | |
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| 4/12/2007 | |
| This policy brief urges the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt a strong cleanup order that will fully clean up rocket fuel pollution in Rialto's drinking water supplies. | |
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| 2006-12-1 | |
| For decades, tobacco companies have ignored evidence and distorted science in order to mislead the public and decision-makers, despite clear evidence that tobacco smoking is hazardous to public health. Now companies facing government action over rocket fuel pollution are deploying similar tactics. | |
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| 2/2/2006 | |
| To restore nine of the largest polluted waterways in the state to health, legally mandated cleanup plans drafted by California’s water boards must be strengthened. | |
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| 11/3/2006 | |
| This petition to the California Enviromental Protection Agency documents the case for revising California's health risk assessment for perchlorate in drinking water. | |
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| 10/10/2007 | |
| October 18, 2007 marks the 35th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, a landmark law intended to restore and maintain the physical, chemical and biological integrity of the nation’s waters. In passing the Clean Water Act, Congress set the goals of eliminating the discharge of pollutants into the nation’s waterways by 1985 and making all U.S. waterways fishable and swimmable by 1983. Although we have made significant progress in improving water quality since the passage of the Clean Water Act, we are far from realizing the Act’s original vision. | |
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| 1/28/2003 | |
| From Sacramento to San Diego, contaminants like MTBE and perchlorate have polluted at least 70 billion gallons of drinking water across the state, making it unsafe to use for drinking water. The total amount of unusable water equals 35% of the supplies lost to California from the Colorado River this year, concludes this report. | |
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| 1/10/2005 | |
| In order to protect expecting mothers, their developing fetuses and their infant children, the California Department of Health Services (DHS) should set a final health standard for perchlorate in drinking water at one part per billion or less. | |
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