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Clean Water Currents Winter 2018 • Volume 46, No Clean Water Currents Winter 2018 • Volume 46, No. 2 The Clean Water Action Newsletter 2018 MIDTERMS: BREAKING NEWS: Trump’s EPA proposed its Clean Water Wins Dirty Water Rule. Learn more at cleanwater.org/dirtywaterrule After the 2016 elections, Clean Water Action put a renewed effort Help us stop it: visit into organizing communities with an eye toward electing a cleanwater.org/defendwater pro-environment majority in Congress in 2018. Staff identified districts ripe for change in several states, prioritizing 15 Congressional districts in Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Clean Water also focused on defending several senators, ensuring state legislatures across the country were led by clean water champions, and winning several gubernatorial races. Focusing on the Field The organization put its expertise in door-to-door Whitmer in Michigan both won election and Senators field canvassing to work in these 15 districts, knocking Debbie Stabenow (MI), Elizabeth Warren (MA), Bob on more than half a million doors. Hundreds of Casey (PA), and Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) were all re- professional canvassers fanned out across the country elected. In addition, Pennsylvania re-elected Governor to talk to voters. Field canvassers spoke with tens of Tom Wolf and Governor Gina Raimondo won a close thousands of voters, identifying clean water voters and race for re-election in Rhode Island. motivating them to get out and vote on Election Day. Madeleine Dean, Rashida Tlaib, and Omar Ilhan. It worked. Clean Water-endorsed candidates in 14 of Clean Water efforts also yielded big wins in state the 15 targeted districts won their races. Gubernatorial legislatures. All of the candidates endorsed for the candidates Tim Walz in Minnesota and Gretchen continued on page 2 www.cleanwateraction.org Clean Water Wins continued from page 1 Massachusetts legislature won, several seats flipped In Minnesota, field teams knocked on more than to a pro-environment candidate in Pennsylvania, and 16,000 doors in swing districts to help replace clean water candidates won in Maryland, ensuring anti-environment representatives with Angie Craig a strong pro-environment contingent for the 2019 and Dean Phillips, and elect pro-environment state legislative session. We also helped elect Dana Nessel as legislators and Governor-elect Tim Walz. Attorney General in Michigan, along with 10 important The effort didn’t stop until the polls closed. state house and state senate seats. Most exciting was Organizers spoke with voters in these districts Texas, where Clean Water efforts won two out of four right to the end, ensuring that as many clean water state senate races, and eight of nine races in which the voters as possible were able to get out and support organization endorsed in the state house — including candidates who will push back against the dirty eight seats that flipped from a pro-polluter to a pro- water agenda in Congress, help fill the leadership gap environment candidate. See page for a full list of on efforts to address the climate crisis, and loosen clean water wins. the stranglehold that special interests like the fossil fuel industry have on our democracy. How did this all happen? Here are a few highlights: Clean Water Action has a deep history of identifying In the four competitive races that opportunities to elect clean water leaders and then Clean Water Action focused on in winning by putting resources into the field, knocking New Jersey, canvassers knocked on on thousands of doors and talking to voters. The more than 218,000 doors, holding organization continued that excellence this year. personal, engaging conversations Study after study shows that field operations win NJ: Rep. Gottheimer to maximize votes for our endorsed campaigns. The importance of person-to-person candidates Mikie Sherrill, Andy contact can’t be overstated. Clean Water Action has Kim, Tom Malinowski, and Josh known this, and practiced it, for more than 46 years. Gottheimer. In addition to electing The strategic investment in field operations this all four Representatives, Clean election will pay dividends for years to come. Water Action was able to help defend and re-elect Senator Bob What’s Next? Menendez. Despite helping to ensure a pro-environment MI: Gov. Whitmer majority that will set the agenda in the U.S. House In Michigan, Clean Water Action and strengthening clean water leadership in state organizers canvassed more capitols, the road ahead is long. Polluter allies than 142,000 voters, supporting increased their grip on the U.S. Senate and the Gretchen Whitmer for Governor, Trump administration is still doing everything it Dana Nessel for Attorney General, can to undermine commonsense protections for our Senator Debbie Stabenow, and water and health and dismantling landmark laws like candidates for U.S. House, like the Clean Water Act. Clean Water Action is looking Rashida Tlaib and Gretchen to 2020, identifying districts and states where the PA: Gov. Wolf Driskell, and state House in targeted organization can make a difference and elect another swing districts. crop of clean water leaders. In the meantime, Clean In Pennsylvania, field organizers Water staff will focus their expertise on fighting the focused on swing suburban dirty water agenda from the Trump White House, Philadelphia districts, knocking holding newly elected leaders to their promises and, on more than 57,000 doors and most importantly, building the movement for clean speaking with voters to urge support water. for Governor Tom Wolf, Senator Bob MN: Rep. Craig Casey and key state candidates. www.cleanwateraction.org Clean Water Wins by State: CALIFORNIA Carol Krimm MINNESOTA RHODE ISLAND U.S. House Ken Kerr Governor Governor Harley Rouda — Stephen Lafferty Tim Walz Gina Raimondo defeated incumbent Pat Young U.S. House Treasurer East Bay Municipal Utility District Charles Sydnor Angie Craig — Seth Magaziner Shirley Nathan-Pulliam Marguerite Young — defeated incumbent U.S. Senate unopposed Luke Clippinger Dean Phillips — Brooke Lierman Sheldon Whitehouse defeated incumbent U.S. House MASSACHUSETTS Robbyn Lewis Ilhan Omar Diana Fennell David Cicilline U.S. Senate State House James Langevin Elizabeth Warren MICHIGAN Tina Liebling State Senate Patty Acomb State Senate Governor Joshua Miller Dave Pinto Paul Feeney Gretchen Whitmer Bridget Valverde Jamie Eldridge Mike Freiberg State House Julian Cyr Attorney General Hunter Cantrell Dana Nessel Alice Mann Colin Allred State House Rebecca Kislak Jim Hawkins U.S. Senate Raymond Dehn Debbie Stabenow Diane Loeffler Marcia Ranglin-Vassell Joan Meschino Justine Caldwell U.S. House Hodan Hassan Natalie Higgins Anastasia Williams Dan Kildee Alice Hausman Lori Ehrlich Carol Hagan McEntee Matt Longjohn Andrew Carlson Michelle DuBois Kathleen Fogarty Andy Levin Tami Gouveia Katherine Kazarian Haley Stevens NEW JERSEY Tommy Vitolo Liana Cassar Debbie Dingell U.S. Senate David LeBoeuf Laufton Ascensao Rashida Tlaib Bob Menendez Tram Nguyen Susan Donovan Rob Davidson Sean Garbelley U.S. House Deborah Ruggiero Elissa Slotkin — Marjorie Decker Andy Kim — Grace Diaz Ballot Questions defeated incumbent defeated incumbent Yes on 2 State Senate Josh Gottheimer TEXAS Yes on 3 Stephanie Chang Tom Malinowski U.S. House Erika Geiss Mikie Sherrill Colin Allred — MARYLAND Dayna Polehanki defeated incumbent Jeremy Moss PENNSYLVANIA State Senate State Senate Rosemary Bayer Governor Ron Young Beverly Powell Mallory McMorrow Tom Wolf Katie Fry Hester Nathan Johnson Guy Guzzone Jeff Irwin U.S. Senate State House Brian Feldman Curtis Hertel Jr. Bob Casey Erin Zwiener William Smith Jim Ananich U.S. House Sheryl Cole Jim Rosapepe Winnie Brinks Brendan Boyle Vikki Goodwin Paul Pinsky State House Dwight Evans James Talarico Joanne Benson Alex Garza Madeline Dean Terry Meza Sarah Elfreth Abdullah Hammoud Mary Gay Scanlon Victoria Neave Pam Beidle Kevin Hertel Matt Cartwright John Turner Bill Ferguson Kristy Pagan Darrin Camilleri State Senate John Bucy III State House Jim Ellison Steve Santarsiero Dana Stein Bill Sowerby Lindsey Williams VIRGINIA Eric Ebersole Christine Greig State House U.S. House Terri Hill Mari Manoogian Gene DiGirolama Don Beyer Eric Luedtke Padma Kuppa Perry Warren Jennifer Wexton — David Fraser-Hidalgo Sheryl Kennedy Stephen McCarter defeated incumbent Marc Korman Rashida Tlaib Danielle Otten Gerry Connolly Kumar Barve Tim Sneller Carolyn Committa Jim Gilchrist Donna Lasinski Melissa Schusterman Al Carr Yousef Rabhi Leanne Kruger Braneky David Moon Rebekah Warren Greg Vitali Andy Levin Jon Hoadley Joseph Hohenstein Anne Healey Jim Haadsma Malcolm Kenyatta Marvin Holmes Kara Hope Mary Gay Scanlon CT Wilson David LaGrand Alice Cain Rachel Hood Sandy Bartlett www.cleanwateraction.org The Oil Industry’s Lame Duck Trojan Horse Control of the House of Representatives is about t0 detailed monitoring plan to EPA in order to ensure switch hands next year. And with it, the fossil fuel the carbon actually remains safely underground. The industry’s hopes of passing more friendly legislation. bill undermines the intention of the carbon capture That is not stopping the oil industry from planning and storage tax credit and streamlines oil extraction to slip one more handout from the taxpayers in their without any protections in place. pocket. The CO2 Regulatory Certainty Act, introduced This is basic taxpayer oversight and corporate by Senator John Hoeven (R-ND), is specifically written accountability for companies taking hundreds of for companies that benefit from the recently updated millions of dollars worth of federal tax credits. Section 45Q tax credit. Section 45Q provides tax credits for companies that capture and securely store The bill could get attached to a “must pass” piece of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions during industrial legislation like a large spending bill or in a tax extender processes. The vast majority of captured carbon is sold package. Last year, the bill was slipped into the Tax to oil companies to inject back underground in order to Extender Act of 2017 before getting shelved. Large extract residual oil trapped in a reservoir. This process spending bills are vulnerable to unrelated issues is called enhanced oil recovery (EOR).
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