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Study Confirms that Green Spaces Are Good for People, Not Just Fish

November 12, 2009

Posted by Nancy Stoner in Health and the Environment

Tags:
beaches, cleanwater, greeninfrastructure, greenroofs, greenspace, LID, lowimpactdevelopment, runoff, smartgrowth, stormwater

Sometimes when people learn that my job is to help clean America's waterways, they assume I care about more about fish than people. The truth is that the best way to keep dirty stormwater and other urban pollution out of our rivers...continued

Funding New Thinking about Water

May 7, 2009

Posted by Nancy Stoner in Curbing Pollution

Tags:
cleanwateract, safedrinkingwater, smartgrowth, sprawl, stormwater, waterprogram

Today, Senators Boxer (D-CA), Inhofe (R-OK), Cardin (D-MD), and Crapo (R-ID) will introduce the Water Infrastructure Financing Act, which will reauthorize Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water state revolving funds.  These funds are the principal federal contribution to funding water...continued