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Clean Water Action is an American environmental advocacy and lobby group. Created in 1972, Clean Water Action focuses on canvassing to gain support for political issues, candidates, and funding. It is a 501(c)(4) organization.

History
During the late 1960s water pollution was spreading in many parts of the country, with a burning Cuyahoga River in northeast Ohio and biologically dead Lake Erie among the visible examples of wider problems. David Zwick was a young law school student when Ralph Nader recruited him to a task force researching water pollution problems. After a two-year tour of America's most polluted waters, Zwick authored Water Wasteland and then founded Clean Water Action to address the issues outlined in his book.

Zwick founded Clean Water Action in 1972 as a grassroots and lobbying organization. The fledgling organization's goal was to enact many of Water Wasteland's platforms of recommended changes into law. To reach this goal, Zwick outlined a grassroots strategy of door-to-door canvassing and public education. Zwick contributed to the Clean Water Act.

In 1986, Clean Water Action, the United States Public Interest Research Group and the National Campaign Against Toxic Hazards published a report claiming the Environmental Protection Agency was failing to properly enforce the federal Superfund toxic waste cleanup program.

Endorsements
Clean Water Action endorsed Democratic President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012.

Agriculture
Clean Water Action has supported stricter rules on discharging pesticides into waterways.

Clean Water Action supported California's Senate Bill 623 to create the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund. The fund is generated through a one-dollar-per-month water-bill tax on Californian households. Low income households are exempt from this tax.

The Clean Water Act
Clean Water Action is one of several plaintiffs suing Scott Pruitt and the Environmental Protection Agency over alleged violations of procedural law regarding the Clean Water Act Effluent Limitations Guidelines.

The Clean Water Rule
Clean Water Action supports the Clean Water Rule.

Hydraulic Fracturing
Clean Water Action opposed hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, on public lands in Texas citing concerns over water contamination and the potential for damage to dam infrastructure.

In 2008, Clean Water Action and Earth Justice brought a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for not complying with state and federal water protection laws in a plan to allow partially treated fracking wastewater to be discharged into the Monongahela River. The court ruled in favor of the plaintiff.

In 2012, Clean Water Action joined a number of other environmental groups to urge Pennsylvania and EPA officials to enforce water protection laws against EQT Production Company over a 50+ million gallon fracking wastewater pit that was leaking into groundwater and surface water.

Flame Retardants
Clean Water Action has advocated for laws to restrict the use of flame retardants in upholstered furniture, clothing, and other products in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Minnesota, and California. Clean Water Action has also worked with public health interest groups to release reports and consumer guides about flame retardant chemicals in consumer products.

Plastics
Clean Water Action has been involved in campaigns to reduce plastic pollution including California's Assembly Bill 888 to ban the use of plastic microbeads in rinse-off personal care products; Minneapolis's ordinance to restrict the use of single-use plastic bags; and a 'trash trawl' of Narragansett Bay to raise awareness about plastic pollution.

Water Conservation
Clean Water Action has supported laws to require stricter water efficiency standards, has opposed the sale of aquifers to business, and has supported waterway and wetland restoration.

Affiliates, Subsidiaries, and Coalitions
Clean Water Fund is a 501(c)(3) subsidiary of Clean Water Action.

Coalitions
Healthy Legacy Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families