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Risking Our Food and Farmland in Michigan
By Bruni Bezati, Lake St. Clair Program Intern I am extremely disappointed with the Michigan State Legislature’s decision to pass a package of bills that allows industrial waste, like coal ash, to be used in roads, as construction fill, and most alarming of all, to be spread over our farm fields. This poses the risk of contaminating our food and causing damage to Michigan’s farming communities. As an intern with Clean Water Action, I joined fellow staff and concerned community members this past Tuesday to inform elected officials about the dangers of coal ash and the negative effects these
Responding to #ProtectCleanWater Myths
By Margi Armstrong, Lake St. Clair Program Coordinator Protecting all of our nation’s water seems like a no brainer. In fact, when I ask folks in my community to take action to fix the Clean Water Act and ensure that we protect our drinking water sources, the most common response is “Well, duh! Where do I sign?!”. However, some of our elected officials in Michigan don’t feel the same way. A State Representative in Southeast Michigan has proposed a resolution calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) to recall their proposed “waters of the
Water Infrastructure in the Great Lakes
The Great Lakes are a national treasure. They contain 20% of the earth’s fresh surface water and are the drinking water source for more than 40 million people. However, dangerously outdated infrastructure remains a huge threat to our lakes.
What's at stake with the Dirty Water Rule
In January 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized it's Navigable Waters Protection Rule (AKA "The Dirty Water Rule") to slash federal clean water safeguards. Trump’s Dirty Water Rule is a radical reinterpretation of the Clean Water Act that would eliminate protections for rain-dependent streams, which feed drinking water sources for millions of people. And it would put at risk more than half of our nation’s wetlands, which filter pollution and protect our communities from flooding. What’s at Stake The Dirty Water Rule rollbacks is a disaster for our water. Here’s what is at
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