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Michigan Currents - Spring | Summer 2018
In this issue: Updating Michigan’s Lead and Copper Rule | Pledge to Hold Lawmakers Accountable | The Oil Industry’s Line 5 Plan – An Oil Tunnel through the Heart of the Great Lakes | Grand Haven Beach Cleanup | Water is Life – 2018 Great Lakes Awards Celebration | Public Relations vs. Public Health – White House makes PFAS Political | Michigan needs a strong statewide sanitary code
Putting Drinking Water First to Address Nutrient Pollution
Nutrient pollution from nitrogen and phosphorus runoff is one of the most pervasive water quality problems in the U.S., and there's increasing concern about its impact on drinking water.
Carbon Capture and Release
Injecting captured carbon underground to produce more oil is promoted as a climate mitigation policy. This 2018 report exposes these oversight failures and challenges the assertion that federal subsidies for carbon used in enhanced oil recovery could ever be considered an effective climate mitigation policy.
State of Texas Aquifer Exemption Project -- Report by Texas Railroad Commission
In November 2017, the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC), which regulates the state’s oil and gas operations, submitted a report on its Class II Underground Injection Well Control (UIC) program to EPA. This report, which Clean Water Action received via an open records request, has not been published on either agency's web page.
Crude Oil Trains in Baltimore: Too Dangerous for the Rails
Big Oil companies’ push to extract and refine more extreme forms of oil has led to unprecedented transport of explosive and climate-polluting crude oil on our nation’s rail lines. Crude oil train traffic grew 5,100 percent from 2008 to 2014 due to the rapid increase in fracking for oil in the Bakken shale fields of North Dakota and in tar sands oil extraction in Canada. An alarming number of derailments and explosions across North America has followed. In Maryland, crude oil trains are a danger to communities near rail lines across the state and to Baltimore in particular. The oil industry has