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New York has some of the cleanest water in America. It deserves strong protections so all can enjoy its benefits for generations to come. There are currently 2 bills that need legislative support in order to guarantee these high level protections: Assembly Bill A.2064 and Senate Bill S2072. Please write to your NY legislators to bring this bill to life! Sign the petition and circulate:
forthegenerations.org/actnow/actionny/#NY_Petition
ACT NOW—New York – For the Generations
forthegenerations.org
Want to help the State of New York to pass a Green Amendment? Here are THREE things you can do: #1 Write to your Assembly and Senate representatives in the New York Legislature. They need to hear from...Sounds a lot like #GreenAmendment Talk!
“The state is a guardian of natural resources for the benefit of the public, and when our resources become polluted, we have a duty to seek restoration from those responsible.”
- DEP Commissioner Catherine R. McCabe.
Corrosive water is causing toxic lead to be leached from pipes into #Newark's drinking water and this is not an isolated case.
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“We are going to spend millions of dollars on security guards to protect students from gun violence but we aren’t properly protecting their brain health from lead in water.”
And another quote from a teacher:
" 'There wasn’t the public outcry because people were so overloaded with the vicissitudes of life,' she said. The reaction was, 'I gotta worry about water too? Are you kidding me?' "
www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/mar/06/america-schools-water-lead-crisis
Physicians for Social Responsibility NRDC Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
#GreenAmendment #CleanWater #EnvironmentalRights #HumanRights #Lead #Flint #SafeDrinkingWater #ToxicChemicals
A hidden scandal: America's school students exposed to water tainted by toxic lead
theguardian.com
Elevated levels of lead have been found in schools across the US, alarming experts who say it is particularly harmful to children