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Working To Keep The Great Lakes State Great: Michigan 2024 In Review
Together we will walk the path ahead and prove that a grassroots struggle that builds power from the bottom up is essential to making progress on the issues that matter most. As we prepare for 2025 and the critical fights ahead, I take courage in knowing that we can count on your support, and I’m thankful to be in this fight with you.
Freighter Fails in Great Lakes Highlight Line 5 Risks
After the devastating collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Michiganders are not ruling out a similar tragedy in the Great Lakes. After obtaining a public records request from the U.S. Coast Guard, a new report in the Detroit News discovered that Great Lakes freighters lost control or power more than 200 times between 2012 and May 2022, and crashed with stationary objects more than 60 times over the same decade. While the News notes that a freighter crash similar to the Key Bridge tragedy is unlikely with the Mackinac Bridge, there is a profound risk of damaging Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac.
Michigan Currents | Winter 2024
In This Issue: Where Do We Go From Here? | The Powerful Commitment Of Thanksgiving | National Updates: 2024 Election Results and Our Work; The Safe Drinking Water Act: 50 Years of Progress — But the Work is Never Finished; A Win for Our Water: Progress On Getting Lead Out Of Drinking Water