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Michigan Currents | Summer 2023
In This Issue: Making Millionaires and Corporations Pay Their Fair Share, for Our Water | What will the Michigan Legislature do for our Water? | Fighting Climate Change and Holding DTE Energy Accountable | Clean Water Action as Allies in the Fight for Environmental Justice
Achieving Groundwater Access for All: Why Groundwater Sustainability Plans Are Failing Many Users
With increased droughts, the implementation of California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act and protection of vulnerable communities dependent on small water systems and domestic wells is urgent.
Crude Oil Trains in Baltimore: Too Dangerous for the Rails
Big Oil companies’ push to extract and refine more extreme forms of oil has led to unprecedented transport of explosive and climate-polluting crude oil on our nation’s rail lines.
Crude oil train traffic grew 5,100 percent from 2008 to 2014 due to the rapid increase in fracking for oil in the Bakken shale fields of North Dakota and in tar sands oil extraction in Canada. An alarming number of derailments and explosions across North America has followed.
In Maryland, crude oil trains are a danger to communities near rail lines across the state and to Baltimore in particular. The oil industry has