This is a wonderful group of Environmental Advocates we need to bring attention and recognition to. Cleaner Kentucky is in a small town of 260 residents - Boston, Nelson County Kentucky, USA all with big hearts for the environment.

Whitney Lewis is at the helm of this grassroots movement and is working tirelessly over several counties with over 8,000 volunteers. They had the goal of collecting 1-million bags of trash from March 14^th to April 22^nd and exceeded that goal with 1,002,986 bags and other small and large trash items from land and waterways.

On April 27, 2026, Cleaner Kentucky  received Earth Month’s Environmental Excellence award.

The group is working to collect a nother million by years end.

With a sad note....Matt, a stake holder in many clenup evnts has recently passed. Well admired and loved by many leaving children and grand children...but  most of all great memories for those that knew him. He is in the photo above wearing the black shirt and hat. 

Arizona Game & Fish Joins Arizona Public Service for Earth Month Cleanup

This is the Arizona Public Services 140^th Anniversary in providing electrical power to its customers, where energy in part comes from the Palo Verde Generating Station which recycles over 20 billion gallons of wastewater annually.

Sources that people may not know of is the expansion of natural gas, and a growing portfolio of renewables like solar and wind. As of 2024–2025, the mix includes substantial generation from carbon-free sources, with a goal to achieve 100% clean energy by 2050.

For this year’s Earth Month, APS has teamed up with the Arizona Game and Fish Department to provide cleanup projects on April 29^th in specific areas that are in need. The list can be found at AZGFD 

This is the Arizona Public Services 140th Anniversary in providing electrical power to its customers, where energy in part comes from the Palo Verde Generating Station which recycles over 20 billion gallons of wastewater annually.

Sources that people may not know of is the expansion of natural gas, and a growing portfolio of renewables like solar and wind. As of 2024–2025, the mix includes substantial generation from carbon-free sources, with a goal to achieve 100% clean energy by 2050.

For this year’s Earth Month, APS has teamed up with the Arizona Game and Fish Department to provide cleanup projects on April 29th in specific areas that are in need. The list can be found at AZGFD

Earth Month was out early for this event @ the Rio Salado Habitat Restoration Area NE Central Trailhead parking lot 2439 S. Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85004.

At the start an introduction of the area was presented by Don the City Of Phoenix Park Ranger, with Alexandra from Game and Fich providing project scope of work. Liberty Wildlife gave a presentation with their 4-year-old female bald eagle, and a large goffer snake.

APS was then presented with the 2026 Earth Month Environmental Excellence award for the Community Beautification Investment program. APS will continue clean ups in the remainder of the 140 communities statewide by years end.

About 50 volunteers helped cleanup trash from trails, rock embankments and the river bottom. Approximately 122 large trash bags were collected with larger items and several encampments removed in 2 hours.

This rehab area is an ongoing work in progress. It is home to the Nina Mason Pulliam Rio Salado Audubon Center, and the Liberty Wildlife sanctuary.

In 2015 the City of Phoenix sued the FAA over the NexGen flight paths at the airport. We filed a direct complaint with the FAA and Inspector General on expanded issues. It was in part to protect this area with over 200 species of birds from hummingbirds to bald eagles even with five species of bats in between, and migration afrea for Monarch butterflies. 

The NexGen project would have caused environmental harm to wildlife and humans and cost the city $400-M in noise abatement alone.  The FAA was required to revert back to original flight paths. (That filing is on our website)

Next year's APS event will be held on April 22nd.

With a population of over 370,000 Iligan City, Northern Mindanao, Philippines is facing a water crisis. This is due to a water system put in operation in the 1970's reaching its expected life cycle.  Photo 04/04/26 of a water line repair/replacement of section. The entire treatment and distribution system is in need of being engineered, designed and replaced.

It is just amazing....the people show up to work, they know how vital water is, and willing to help, a most resilient and industrial people.

How will this work? 

The Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Center of the Philippines and the City Government of Iligan have formally signed the Technical Assistance Agreement (TAA) for the preparation of the Business Case Report for the TUBO: A Tariff and Utility Blueprint for Water Operations, Model for the Iligan City Waterworks System. The ceremonial signing was held on March 14, 2025 at the Tourism Ethnic Center in Iligan City. 

The City Government of Iligan has been selected for the development of a pilot Nature-based Solution (NbS) business case under the United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) Accelerating Green and Climate Finance in the Philippines: Nature-based Solutions Project.

This project seeks to boost private sector investments in gender-responsive NbS for climate-resilient technologies, innovations, practices, and approaches. The study will explore how private sector participation can bring in much-needed investment, efficiency, and expertise to improve Iligan’s water supply system while ensuring that climate resilience and sustainable water resource management are prioritized.

Earth Month is granted many Proclamations globally from governments to universities and industries. Being that we are in Arizona this is the one from the City of Maricopa presented to us April 7, 2026. For others, please mail them in.

Qatar has been very busy the past couple of years and built the larget sewater desalination plant in the world. It will produce 600-M liters or over 158 -M gallons of filtered/permeate water  a day. Some of the issues are the increased salinty of water returned to the sea and energy consumption. Research is being performed in Japan as well to blend the concentrate with fresh water to create energy.

We have worked on and waited for decades for progress on this issue to come to fruition. On April 2nd, an event with Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a landmark set of actions to safeguard the nation's drinking water from microplastics, pharmaceuticals, 

forever chemicals, and dozens of other contaminants. Read the full press release 

Thanks, Sam (Dr. Sheri Mason), for your esteemed dedication and fine work!

This does create another issue. Once the chemicals and microplastic are removed from wastewater they are present in the sludge. Sludge is utilized in farming which means that the materials in the sludge seep into the ground and migrate to water tables, or stay on the surface and contaminate crops, this then extends to grazing contamination.

Sludge would need to be tested with bioremediated in rotating furnaces and then mixed with other clean materials for fertilization process. This research and testing will take some time as well.

On February 27, 2026, Kris Mayes, Attorney General for the State of Arizona, was presented with the Environmental Excellence Award for her "distinguished service, steadfast leadership, and extraordinary commitment to upholding the highest principles of justice, involving pipeline safety, renewable energy, protection of our environment and ecosystems through environmental sustainability, and most prevalent today in securing our water resources for future generations"

Our work is vast and performed globally for the benefit of humankind. The cost of such has grown exponentially over the years. We have mostly relied upon volunteers, but this is no longer the case.  

Many environmental non-profits can secure large amounts of donations and grant funding. You can research it for an individual organization, for those who report.

Our funding is very short for the year. We need to secure funding to address the shortfall and continue our global work. Our work covers areas that others do not or will not touch.  Thanks to video conferencing platforms, travel costs are minimized.

We hope that you will support not only our efforts but also our work. It is a matter of literally saving our only home…Earth and the human lives that are upon it.

Thank you for your understanding and support, so let’s get to work!

The Next Campaign to End "Environmental Apathy!"

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