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Protecting our water and health from the "forever chemicals"
PFAS are a class of human-made chemicals which includes Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances. Learn more.
10 Things You Can Do About Toxic PFAS Chemicals
PFAS are a family of approximately 9,000 human-made chemicals that are effective at repelling grease, water, and stains, as well as combating certain types of fires.
Representative Brian Elder's Pro- Line 5 Statement as corrected by Clean Water Action
Representative Elder's original statement was riddled with errors -- so we fixed it. Download a PDF version of the corrections here. LANSING — Public Act 359 of 2018 passed the Michigan Legislature last December creating the Mackinac Straits Corridor Authority to oversee the construction and management of a utility tunnel to modernize the oil and gas pipeline keep an outdated and climate-change inducing 19 th century fuel source operating through the Straits of Mackinac and house Enbridge Energy’s Line 5. Attorney General Dana Nessel filed a lawsuit to terminate the operation of the existing
Michigan’s Outdated and Dangerous Combined Sewer Systems
Many of Michigan’s urban and suburban areas expanded rapidly between the 1920s and the 1950s — an era with different priorities for water management. Many of Michigan’s water systems were originally built as combined systems, meaning the pipes carried both stormwater and wastewater. These systems simply discharged all water directly into local lakes, rivers, and streams, without treatment. Wastewater treatment centers were built later, and the combined sewer pipes were redirected there for the water to be processed before being released back into the water table. Starting in the mid-1950s
Protecting Michigan’s Waters: Infrastructure for the Future
Michigan is the Great Lakes state. As such, Michigan residents are acutely aware of our duty to protect the Great Lakes and our water resources for future generations. There are currently many threats to our water here in Michigan. Most of these threats have been looming for years, but action on them has been pushed off, as our legislature procrastinates and ignores the problems instead of taking the hard steps that action requires. The Flint water crisis brought the dangers of lead infrastructure and poor oversight from the state to the surface and a city was poisoned as a result. Every year
