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Take action: Protect our waters from microplastic pollution in RI!
Send a message to your RI state legislators asking them to protect our waterways from microplastic pollution!
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.
Listen to me, a plastic spoon: Do NOT give Clean Water Fund money to fight plastic pollution on 401Gives!
Clean Water Fund wants to raise money on 401Gives for their ReThink Disposable campaign to directly fund replacing disposable plastic forks, cups, and spoons (like me!) with reusable products at restaurants and institutions across Rhode Island