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If Your State Isn't Keeping Your Water Safe, You Can Do Something About It

September 15, 2009

Posted by David Beckman in Health and the Environment

Tags:
californiawater, citizenenforcement, citizensuits, cleanwateract, EPA, simplesteps, smartercities, stormwater, waterpollution

As a water advocate, I welcomed the terrific New York Times article this Sunday about the rise of pollution in America's waters. It's a bracing reminder that even when we have good environmental laws on the books, we still need...continued

Water Quality Regulation in California: A Day Late and a Dollar Short?

January 29, 2009

Posted by David Beckman in Curbing Pollution

Tags:
cleanwater, cleanwateract, permits, pollution, runoff, waterpollution, waterprogram, waterresources

Imagine your boss gave you a deadline, a really important one.  The kind of deadline that affects the bottom line of whatever it is you do profoundly.  And let's even imagine your boss tells you the deadline is imposed by...continued

"License to Kill" Southern California's Waterways

January 8, 2009

Posted by David Beckman in Curbing Pollution

Tags:
californiawater, cleanwateract, healthebay, toxicitytesting, waterpollution, waterprogram

My colleagues at Heal the Bay in Los Angeles have just released a terrific report on a key water quality issue:  toxic discharges of pollution from industry and public wastewater treatment plants in the LA area.  In "License to Kill:...continued

David Beckman
David Beckman
Senior Attorney & Co-Director, Water Program
Los Angeles
In 1984, I left the cold Philly suburbs for college at U.C. Berkeley, and I...
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