Freshwater Weekly News: July 19, 2024

Freshwater Weekly News: July 19, 2024

This Week: New U.S. EPA Rule Threatens Public Water Utilities – We Want to Improve It; Deadline July 22nd: Your Voice is Needed to Improve Ohio’s Water System Funding; Join Us on July 25th for Freshwater Future’s Virtual Monthly Wellness Session; Mining Project in Porcupine Mountains Fails to Get $50 Million Grant; Great Coffee Starts with Clean Water – Buy a Lead Water Testing Kit and Get a Free Bag of Coffee from Superior Coffee Roasting Co.

Freshwater Future Weekly News: July 12, 2024

Freshwater Future Weekly News: July 12, 2024

This Week: New US EPA Rule Threatens Public Water Utilities – We Want to Improve It; Deadline July 22nd – Your Voice is Needed to Improve Ohio’s Water System Funding; House Majority Proposes Huge Cuts to US EPA and Drinking and Wastewater Infrastructure Funding; Meet Freshwater Future’s Spring Grantee Blue Fish Canada; Lake Erie Algae Forecasts Fails to Show Phosphorus Reductions

Freshwater Future Weekly News: July 3, 2024

Freshwater Future Weekly News: July 3, 2024

This Week: Join Us on July 25th for Freshwater Future’s Virtual Monthly Wellness Session; Lake Ontario’s New National Marine Sanctuary; Celebrating Aquatic Invasive Species Awareness Week and the Funding to Address Invasive Carp; Pollution from East Palestine’s Tragic Train Derailment Spread Across the Region

Freshwater Future Weekly News: June 21, 2024

Freshwater Future Weekly News: June 21, 2024

This Week: Your Voice is Needed to Improve Drinking Water Funding in Illinois; Michigan’s Line 5 Lawsuit Returns to State Court; This Week in Climate Change: Harmful Algal Blooms and Heat Islands; State of Michigan Offers New Grants For Community Groups

Welcome 2024 Summer Interns

Welcome 2024 Summer Interns

Freshwater Future interns will have an opportunity to learn about nonprofit organizations, gain work experience, as well as build their skills to support their future careers. Their work this summer supports Freshwater Future’s policy work on two of the most critical issues in the Great Lakes: water privatization and mining.

Freshwater Future Weekly News: June 14, 2024

Freshwater Future Weekly News: June 14, 2024

This Week: Your Voice is Needed to Improve Drinking Water Funding in Pennsylvania; Thank you to Everyone who contributed to Freshwater Future’s Wonders of the Great Lakes Auction; Meet Our Newest Additions to the Team: Josh Heupel and Ava Fink; Ontario Announces $1.8 million for the Great Lakes Local Action Fund; Nuclear Power in the Great Lakes Region–the Risks to Water Quality and Public Health

Freshwater Future Weekly News: June 7, 2024

Freshwater Future Weekly News: June 7, 2024

This Week: Join Us June 20th for Freshwater Future’s Virtual Monthly Wellness Session; Deadline June 12th: Your Voice is Needed to Improve Wisconsin’s Water System Funding; Benton Harbor Residents Face Shutoffs for Unaffordable Water Bills Help is Hard to Get; Nearly 400 Gallons of Diesel Fuel Spill into Lake Superior at Silver Bay Marina, MN