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To celebrate Clean Water Action's 50th anniversary, we’re sharing our history and journey with the people who have joined us along the way as we worked to protect clean water through #CleanWater50 stories.

Roger Smith joined Clean Water Action's Connecticut team in 2003, shortly after our big win of the Sooty Six Campaign to shut down dirty power plants in the state. He played a pivotal role to further advocate for clean, renewable energy policy at the local level, leading the Neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge that helped municipal leaders and residents in fourteen towns with energy

By Alicia Vignoe, Michigan Executive Assistant Intern

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