This Week: There’s Still Time to Give your Year-End Gift to Bring People One Step Closer to Having Clean and Safe Water; Year in Review: Protecting the People and the Waters of the Great Lakes; Meet One of our Fall 2023 Grantees: Superior Rivers Watershed Association; New York Passes the Lead Pipe Right to Know Act!
Freshwater Future Weekly: December 21, 2023
This Week: Your Gift Today, Support Our Fight for Safe Drinking Water; Strengthening the New Lead and Copper Rule: Replacing Lead Pipes with Plastic Pipes is Not the Solution; Application Deadlines Announced for Canada’s Great Lakes Freshwater Ecosystem Initiative Funds; Meet Our Fall 2023 Grantees; Michigan’s Eagle Mine Seeks Underground Mining Expansion; As a Warm Winter Begins, Ice Cover on the Lakes are Low
Freshwater Future Weekly: December 15, 2023
This Week: Take Action – Use your Voice to Ensure the Strongest Lead Protections in Drinking Water; Rocket Launch Site on Lake Superior Blocked; Give and support NO Lead is Safe; Road Salt is Harming Our Waters – Meet the Advocates Fighting for a Solution; Open-Pit Mine Threatens Lake Superior with Acid Mine Drainage
Freshwater Future Weekly: December 8, 2023
Make Your Voice Heard: The New Lead and Copper Draft Rule is Out; Give Your Year-End Gift and support NO Lead is Safe; Line 5 Tunnel Granted Permit by Michigan Public Service Commission; Win! Proposed Golf Course on Wisconsin Lakeshore Park Blocked; Elevated Lead Levels Found in Pennsylvania Schools’ Drinking Water
Freshwater Future Weekly: November 22, 2023
This Week: #GivingTuesday Next Week; Freshwater Voices Newsletter Available Online; Staying Vigilant: Freshwater Future Watches for Lead in your Drinking Water; Thousands of Minnesotans’ Drinking Water Contaminated with Nitrate; Public Meeting About Barrier to Prevent Grass Carp from Migrating to Lake Erie
Freshwater Future Weekly: November 17, 2023
This Week: Save the Date: #Giving Tuesday; Grantee Highlight: Environment North is Taking on Nuclear Waste; Freshwater Future in DC; PFAS Found in 71% of Wisconsin’s Shallow Private Drinking Wells; Freshwater Future Receives Highest Ratings by Candid and Charity Navigator
Freshwater Future Weekly: November 3, 2023
Your Voice is Needed to Improve Minnesota’s Water System Funding; Seneca Lake Guardian Providing PFAS Test Kits to Residents Near New York’s Largest Landfill; Salmon Farms and Our Great Lakes; Proposed House Funding Bill Guts Clean Water Programs; No One Held Accountable for the Flint Water Crisis
Freshwater Future Weekly: October 27, 2023
Detroit’s Jefferson-Chalmers Neighborhood Set to Receive $11.2 from FEMA; Deadline November 13th: Your Voice is Needed to Improve Minnesota’s Water System Funding; Freshwater Future Has You Covered for National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week; Success!! Freshwater Future Grantee Highlight: Meet the Wellington Water Watchers!
Freshwater Future Weekly: October 20, 2023
This Week: Tell Congress to Renew Federal Water Assistance Program; Lobbying Basics for Nonprofits; Improve Minnesota’s Water System Funding; New Law Mandates Universal Lead Testing for Michigan Toddlers; Prevent a Nickel Mine from Polluting Lake Superior; Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Crypto-Mining Site on Seneca Lake Over Warm Water Discharges
Universal Lead Testing…Then What? Urge the EPA to Make Drinking Water Safer!
Michigan’s Governor has signed legislation mandating lead testing for all 1- and 2-year-olds in the state. Starting next year, doctors…