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Working To Keep The Great Lakes State Great: Michigan 2023 In Review
2023 has been a year of change and a year of some big victories in Michigan, from historic investments in our state budget for water infrastructure, addressing water affordability, and ensuring that all Michigan schools and daycare centers have lead-free drinking water systems to repealing “No Stricter Than Federal” and continuing to play a lead role in the ongoing fight to shut down the Line 5 pipeline. Our movement is built from the bottom up and without your ongoing support, none of this would be possible.
Smarter Giving Tips - Ways to Support Clean Water in 2024
We have our work cut out for us in 2024. Since our fundraising team puts some serious effort into educating our members and donors (plus folks who offer expert advice on charitable donations) about what we call “smarter giving,” we’d like to offer this summary of SMARTER tips we’ve shared over the past year to help guide or inspire your year-end giving for Clean Water.
Meet Sharod Blizzard—CT's Energy Justice Organizer!
We’re thrilled to have Sharod join the Clean Water Action team!
Start Oyster Creek cleanup as soon as plant closes
By Janet Tauro, Clean Water Action, NJ Board Chair - Follow on Twitter @CleanWaterNJ The situation continues to deteriorate at the Oyster Creek nuclear plant in Lacey Township, New Jersey. Federal regulators are moving toward increased oversight following an unplanned, emergency shutdown this month after valves that control steam pressure malfunctioned . It was the fifth unplanned shutdown since 2013, and as time goes by for the corroding dinosaur plant, mechanical problems continue to mount. Investigators are looking for the cause, and also determining if plant owners, Exelon, are skipping
The Horrors of Sulfur Dioxide
I imagine that reading about “Sulfur Dioxide” may, at first, sound about as interesting as reading through your old high school science homework, and nowhere nearly as interesting as say, a good Stephen King thriller. But what if I told you that Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) was even scarier than the books in your typical Horror section . . . and posed a far more realistic threat than vampires and haunted cars? Exposure to SO2— in even just a few minutes—can have significant impacts to human health, including aggravating asthma and other respiratory illnesses. It can even exacerbate existing heart
