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Clean Water Action Responds to EGLE Line 5 Permitting Decision
The following statement can be attributed to Sean McBrearty, Michigan Legislative and Policy Director, Clean Water Action:
“In March of 2020, Clean Water Action applauded EGLE’s proposal to reject Macomb County’s request to build an open sewage lagoon in public waters adjacent to the Chapaton Retention Treatment Basin. EGLE denied this proposal because ceding 1,400 feet of public trust waters for storing sewage was not in the public interest and the project could have potentially damaged public trust waters in Lake St. Clair. How the very same agency can now permit an oil tunnel through
Pure Michigan: Where you can drink as much coal ash as you want
By Alicia Vignoe, Michigan Executive Assistant Intern
Lake Michigan
I spend every Fourth of July week in Ludington, Michigan at my aunt’s cottage right by Lake Michigan. The whole family goes up and we spend our days by the lake and nights by the bonfire. You can imagine my surprise when I found out that my beloved Lake Michigan was in trouble because of pollution from coal ash. I didn’t notice anything wrong. I never saw the water turning black and I’ve never become sick from swimming in it, so how bad could it really be? I do live in Pure Michigan, right? My past naivety is something that