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American Water Works Association and Clean Water Action applaud EPA’s final Steam Electric Power Generating Effluent Guidelines
The American Water Works Association (AWWA) and Clean Water Action today applauded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new power plant pollution limits designed to protect drinking water supplies.
New Power Plant Pollution Limits Will Protect Drinking Water and Water Quality
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today finalized a package of new pollution standards for power plants that will significantly reduce water, air and climate pollution. As part of this package, EPA finalized stringent Clean Water Act standards to limits toxic water pollution from coal-fired power plants.
More Must Be Done to Protect Environmental Justice Communities
Democrat leadership urged to move and pass HB 652
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.
Massachusetts Becomes First State to Require Analysis of Cumulative Impacts for Air Quality Permits near Environmental Justice Populations
The Healey-Driscoll Administration today moved to address air quality issues in or near environmental justice areas by announcing amendments to state air pollution regulations. The changes require certain facilities seeking air emissions permits in or near communities with environmental justice populations to conduct a cumulative impact analysis, which evaluates existing local environmental and health conditions in a community.