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$8 million to stop Kramer and Newman!!
In a very memorable episode of Seinfeld, Kramer and Newman take off in Newman’s mail truck loaded down with empty pop cans to return in Michigan for a tidy profit of 10 cents per can. The scheme was hatched in Jerry’s apartment, and their initial run was to be a sort of test to see whether or not a massive operation of muling pop cans into Michigan to defraud our bottle bill program was feasible.
Thirty years later, a group of lawmakers want to stop this kind of fraud – unfortunately, they have also developed their own Kramer and Newman like scheme to raid the Bottle Bill. The bottle bill
Clean Water Action: Trump's budget puts our Great Lakes and health at risk
Lansing -- The Trump administration today released its Fiscal Year 2021 budget proposal. It contains historic cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency and programs that Michigan relies on to protect water and health. The budget proposes reducing $28 million in water infrastructure funding for Michigan from the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds.
Mary Brady- Enerson, Clean Water Action’s Michigan Director, released the following response:
“This is a devastating budget for Michigan. The state relies on the State Revolving Funds to pay for needed improvements to our water
Michigan’s largest grassroots environmental groups join forces to hold Lansing accountable
“It’s time to do things differently,” said Sean McBrearty, Clean Water Action’s Michigan Legislative and Policy Director.
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
2019 Michigan Legislative Scorecard
In 2018, Michigan voters went to the polls and voted overwhelmingly for candidates who promised to clean up our drinking water, hold corporate polluters accountable, end the ongoing threat of Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline, and protect our Great Lakes. So far in the 100th state legislature, positive steps in that direction have been few and far between. That is why this year our scorecard doesn’t focus on the incremental steps that were taken with nearly unanimous approval, but the more aspirational legislation that has been introduced and not acted on. If we want to protect our Great Lakes in an