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Protect and Strengthen our Public Water Infrastructure - Support a Water Protection and Reinvestment Trust Fund! According to Food And Water Watch, our water infrastructure is in desperate need of repair. In July 2009, Congressman Earl Blumenauer introduced a bill to establish a federal trust to provide permanent funding in order to protect our essential water resources, create tens of thousands of green jobs, and safeguard public health. Read more about the trust fund here, and read the New York Times series on our domestic water infrastructure here. Convinced of the need for action to protect our water infrastructure? Sign the Food And Water petition here.

Toxics Targeting, Inc., a service that obtains environmental data from local, state and federal government sources and interactively maps toxic sites on a lot-by-lot basis in New York, has identified 270 past oil and gas spills in New York state that have caused fires, explosions, home evacuations, massive pollution releases, contaminated drinking water sources and tainted farmland. Toxics Targeting is urging people to sign a letter to New York Governor David Paterson asking him to protect New York state's overlaying deposits of Marcellus Shale by maintaining a moratorium on drilling in the formation and requiring an effective way to prevent and clean up hazards created by oil and gas drilling. Read and sign the petition here.