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Victory: Montgomery County cancels the M83 highway!
After decades of diligent advocacy, community members in Montgomery County have finally deleted a proposed new highway from the County’s Master Plan of Highways and Transitways!
The proposed highway in question was the M-83, the Mid-County Highway Extended, which was a six-mile, planned-but-unbuilt, six-lane highway with a $1.37 billion price tag. It would have cut through park land and drinking water sources; damaging water quality, increasing greenhouse gas emissions, and spending enormous financial resources that could go toward public transit instead.
For almost 50 years, fierce opposition
We need action on Line 5, not political grandstanding
Promoting toothless bills is nothing more than an effort to trick constituents into thinking their elected representatives are looking out for them -- rather than Enbridge and the other corporations that have bought their loyalty and votes.
Congress is massively failing the public
Despite the fact that I knew, in real time, how many members of Congress were voting to wipe out protections for our water, supporting an agenda to walk back action on climate, and putting the short-term profits of campaign donors before the needs of the public, I was a little shocked at the terrible scores.
Factsheet - Data Centers in Minnesota
While Clean Water Action Minnesota is not inherently opposed to large-scale data centers, nor the technological advancements of the 21st century, Clean Water Action Minnesota is opposed to massive tax breaks for the ultra- wealthy, exorbitant facility water and energy demands, and threatening our environment for short-term profits.
"Permission to Pollute" Act - Factsheet
The U.S. House of Representatives is advancing dangerous legislation: the “PERMIT Act” (H.R. 3898), a package of over 15 anti-clean water bills. This legislation would gut the Clean Water Act and make it far easier for polluters to contaminate our rivers, lakes, wetlands, and sources of drinking water. That’s why we are calling it the “Permission to Pollute Act.”