This Week: Standing with Protect the Porkies: No State Funds for Sulfide Mine on Lake Superior; Clean-Up at Michigan’s Bear Creek Completed by U.S. EPA; Actions Needed to Address Pharmaceutical Pollution in the St. Lawrence River; Good 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: February 9, 2024
This Week: Private Water Company Will Pay $25M Settlement for Flint Water Crisis; Join our Monthly Giving Circle; Michigan’s Legal Battle Over Livestock Farm Pollution Permit; Forest Service Grant Allows Wisconsin to Acquire Pelican River Forest; Spring Project Grants are Open; Climate Innovation Town Hall Featuring Freshwater Future February 13th!
Freshwater Future Weekly: February 2, 2024
This Week: LAST CHANCE: Urge the U.S. EPA to Protect Families from Lead in Drinking Water by February 5th; Happy World Wetlands Day! Celebrating the Great Lakes Wetlands; Meet One of our Fall 2023 Grantees: WaterLegacy; Buy a Lead Water Testing Kit and Get a Free Bag of Coffee from Superior Coffee Roasting Co.; Climate Innovation Town Hall Featuring Freshwater Future February 13th!
Freshwater Future Weekly: January 26, 2024
This Week: Urge the U.S. EPA to Protect Low Income Families from Lead; Meet One of our Fall 2023 Grantees: Pointes Protection Association; Spring Project Grants are Open! Does Your Water Group Need Funding?; Pennsylvania’s Water Privatization and Rising Rates Up for Debate
Freshwater Future Weekly: January 19, 2024
This Week: Urge the U.S. EPA to Require All Water Systems to Replace Lead Pipes in 10-Years; Great Lakes Community Members Speak Out at Lead and Copper Rule Public Hearing; Meet One of our Fall 2023 Grantees Protecting Lake Erie; Lake Erie News: Dynamite Dock Sighting + Seiche Study Event
Freshwater Future Weekly: January 12, 2023
This Week: Help Improve U.S. EPA’s Public Participation Policy; Improving Federal Lead Rules: Stronger Protections Needed in Schools and Childcare Facilities; Meet One of our Fall 2023 Grantees; Record Low Ice Cover on the Great Lakes this Winter; Line 5 Update; Keweenaw Bay Tribe May Be Compensated for Stolen Land
Freshwater Future Weekly: January 4th, 2024
This Week: Last Chance! Workshop to Use Your Voice to Push for Safer Water; Take Action! Help Improve U.S. EPA’s Public Participation Policy; Meet One of our Fall 2023 Grantees Working for Water Justice in Benton Harbor; Ohio’s New Road Salt Reduction Grant Program; Transport Canada funds innovative research to prevent spread of invasive species in Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River
Freshwater Future Weekly: December 28, 2023
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