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Great Lakes Day in Washington DC: Protecting and Restoring the Lakes to Provide Access to Drinking Water, Recreation, and Democracy
For decades, Clean Water Action has led the fight to protect and restore Lake Superior and the Great Lakes. Why? Because the Great Lakes contain 21% of the Earth’s available fresh surface water. They are the drinking water source for more than 40 million people. Tourism to the Lakes brings in more than 16 billion dollars each year to local economies. And a less quantifiable reason: they are fun and enjoyable!
But the Great Lakes face serious and urgent threats: permitted pollution from industry, toxic water running off farm fields and over non-porous pavement, invasive species, unchecked
Clean Water Action and Healthy Legacy Coalition Response to Minnesota PFAS Groundwater Contamination From Landfills
Minnesota has a history of taking action to protect its citizens, and we need that kind of proactive mindset to tackle PFAS pollution.
Reducing Plastic Waste and COVID-19
A switch back to single-use plastics does nothing to stop COVID-19, but it does undermine recent efforts to reduce our reliance on a material that pollutes our world in every stage of its life: manufacture, disposal, and eventual breakdown in our oceans.
Minnesotans Meet with Congressional Delegation to Prioritize Great Lakes Protection and Drinking Water
Clean Water Action Minnesota was in DC to talk about and support the GLRI Act of 2019 and advocated for significantly increasing federal funding for clean water and safe drinking water programs. The GLRI Act would provide stability for Great Lakes funding for at least five years, provide secure and stable funding, and will encourage more state and local governments, as well as private businesses, to invest in protection and restoration across the Great Lakes basin.