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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
Solving Stormwater Problems with an Innovative Approach
Over many years and decades, ineffective stormwater management has become a leading cause of the degradation of District waterways like the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers, and smaller tributaries such as Rock Creek, Watts Branch, and Oxen Run.
Minnesota's Cumulative Impacts Law: Rulemaking
In the 2023 Minnesota legislative session, we saw the passage of an important environmental justice law; the cumulative impacts law. This law is currently entering into the rulemaking process, where the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will clarify details of how the law will work in effect. This will be an incredibly important process to engage with, as weak rules could effectively undermine any power this law could hold.
Clean Water Currents | Fall 2023
In This Issue: Congress Should Protect People, Not Polluters! | Devastating Sackett v. EPA Supreme Court Decision Puts All Water At Risk | Lead In Drinking Water - Putting Lead Service Lines Behind Us | PFAS Chemicals - Taking the Burden Off Communities and Our Health | EPA Proposes to Expand Regulation of Toxic Coal Ash | State and Regional News
