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Growing Influence

The agribusiness lobby is well known as one of the most powerful in Washington, D.C., and many states. Less well known is the fact that big agribusiness interests are among the largest roadblocks to cleaner water for the American people. 
Big agribusiness corporations have invested millions of dollars in campaign contributions and lobbying to defend agricultural practices that pollute America’s rivers, lakes and ocean waters and to defeat common-sense measures to clean up our waterways.

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Agribusiness Lobby Fights Against Clean Water

Big agribusiness interests are among the largest roadblocks to clean water in the United States, according to a new report by Environment Washington Research & Policy Center. The report, “Growing Influence: The Political Power of Agribusiness and the Fouling of America’s Waterways,” was released today.

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Senate Committee Passes Bill to Protect Puget Sound

This morning, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed the Puget Sound Recover Act, and seven other clean water bills to restore and protect America’s great waters, including bills to protect Long Island Sound, Chesapeake Bay, Columbia River, Gulf of Mexico, San Francisco Bay, Great Lakes, and estuaries across the country.

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Environment Washington Supports Efforts to Restore Two of America's Most Beautiful Waters

Today, the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held a hearing on protecting the Columbia River. A bill in the House would address the current threats to this waterway and would provide funding for restoration.

Result

Seattle bans the bag

With the help of our volunteers and members, Environment Washington led the effort to ban plastic bags in Seattle. We released a report with new and unpublished data to show the full extent of Puget Sound's plastic problemnand how plastic bags threaten our wildlife. Our members made hundreds of phone calls and sent in thousands of public comments, urging Seattle City Council to ban the bag. We finally won with a unanimous vote in favor of the bag ban, making Seattle the second biggest city in the U.S. to ban the bag!