The mission of Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE) is to amplify women’s voices to eliminate the toxic chemicals that harm our health and communities.
Exposure to harmful chemicals in our environment and from the products we use daily is of real concern to women’s health.
While many of the efforts undertaken by WVE focus on exposure to harmful chemicals in consumer products, many of the contaminants and chemicals that most concern us also enter the environment through contaminated water.
And protecting clean water at its sources is essential to having clean water downstream and in our public water systems.
That is why a "yes" vote on Initiative 186 this November makes good, common sense to us.
This citizens’ ballot initiative simply says that new hard-rock mines in Montana will be developed more responsibly.
They will be developed without causing permanent water pollution that requires costly and imperfect water treatment that lasts forever.
I-186 will ensure that new mines are built, operated, closed and cleaned up without burdening Montanans with the risks and costs of water pollution that lasts for generations.
That includes voting.
When we go to the ballot box this fall, the essential need for clean water to ensure our health and happiness will be one of our priorities.