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A Year with Clean Water
As 2017 comes to an end, I want to take this time to thank you for supporting our work through donations and calls-to-action. The letters and emails your give us online or at the door give grassroots credibility when we talk to your representatives about the issues that matter to you - whether it’s forests in Frederick or antibiotics in Annapolis. Here are some highlights of what you have helped us accomplish this year: Passed the Keep Antibiotics Effective Act - Maryland became the second state to ban the use of antibiotics to prevent disease in healthy animals. Banned Mercury Switches and
How Big Oil is Using Big Bucks to Put Our Great Lakes at Risk
"We have two options here: demand our elected officials to act on behalf of their constituents and decommission Line 5 before it fails, or continue to elect people like Governor Snyder and Attorney General Schuette and keep our fingers crossed."
Abbott's Saber Rattling Prattle Against Protecting Our Water
Sadly, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's August 11th letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) threatening to sue if it does not retreat from its plan to strengthen protections for the sources of our drinking water is more about politics and ideology than public health. For Abbott, it does not matter that EPA simply wants to return protections back to where they were during the Clinton and Reagan administrations.
Use Salt to Melt Ice? Here Are Some Tips So You Don’t Pollute Your Favorite Lakes and Rivers!
Water is part of who we are in Minnesota. But lakes and creeks in our cities are getting salty. Fifty lakes and streams in Minnesota have tested above EPA standards for salt!
