Our Favorite #WeAreLakeErieDay Posts, Memories, and Photos; Water Shut-offs Resume in Detroit, Potentially Endangering Thousands; Take Action Now-Deadline August 20th: Protect the Menominee River from an Open-Pit Metal Mine; Great Coffee Starts with Clean Water – Buy a Lead Water Testing Kit and Get a Free Bag of Coffee from Superior Coffee Roasting Co.; Need Funds for Water Work in Your Community? Apply to Freshwater Future’s Fall Project Grants!
Freshwater Future Weekly: August 11, 2023
This Week: Register to Join Us in Benton Harbor for the All About Water Convening on October 4th, 2023; Show Your Love for Lake Erie with #We Are Lake Erie Day, August 16, 2023; Landmark Victory: Minnesota Supreme Court Overturns PolyMet Water Pollution Permit; Op-ed: Tell Legislators to Ensure Affordable Water for All Michiganders; Freshwater Future Welcomes New Board Member: Bettina Marshall; Need Funds for Water Work in Your Community? Apply to Freshwater Future’s Fall Project Grants!
Freshwater Future Weekly: August 4, 2023
This Week: Need Funds for Water Work in Your Community? Check This Out!; Pipelines Continue to Threaten our Freshwater; Several U.S. States Move to Block 3M’s $10.3 Billion PFAS Settlement; 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: July 28th, 2023
This Week: How to Keep Your Family Safe While Chicago Replaces Over 400,000 Lead Service Lines; Meet the Spring Grantees Protecting the Great Lakes from Hazardous Waste; The First Federal Water Assistance Program is Ending, Still Time to Apply; Join Us on August 5th to Kick Off Freshwater Future’s Partnership with Greta Van Fleet and Founders Brewing; Climate Change Is Making Lake Erie’s Algae Blooms Worse
Freshwater Future Weekly: July 21, 2023
This Week: Register for the All About Water Convening on October 4th in Benton Harbor, Freshwater Future’s Guide on Staying Safe During Lead Line Replacements; Ontario Government Announces Expansion to Lake Huron-Based Bruce Nuclear Power Plant; Michiganders – Speak Out in Favor of Affordable Water; Meet Two Freshwater Future Spring Project Grant Recipients Protecting Water Resources in Michigan
Freshwater Future Weekly: July 14, 2023
This Week: Great Coffee Starts With Clean Water – Purchase a Lead Water Testing Kit and Get a Complimentary Bag of Coffee from Superior Coffee Roasting Co; Meet Two Freshwater Future Spring Project Grant Recipients Working On PFAS Pollution in the Finger Lakes of New York; Flood Focus App Helping Detroit, MI Neighborhoods with Flooding in the Streets; Ohio’s Pollution Diet Doesn’t Go Far Enough to Clean Up Lake Erie; Share Your Communities Needs to Restore the Health of the Great Lakes
Freshwater Future Weekly: July 7, 2023
This Week: Freshwater Future Partners with Greta Van Fleet and Founders Brewing; Harmful Algal Bloom Season Has Started on Lake Erie; Massive Salmon Farm Proposed for Muskegon County, Michigan; Illinois and Michigan Cover other Great Lakes States’ Share of Funding for Federal Invasive Asian Carp Project; Save the Date for Our Next All About Water Convening, In-Person – October 4th in Benton Harbor, Michigan
Freshwater Future Weekly: June 30, 2023
This Week: Freshwater Future Welcomes New Board Members; Freshwater Future Host’s Two New Yale Environmental Fellows; Canada Strengthens the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) with passing of Bill S-5; Your Help Is Needed to Improve the Pennsylvania Water System Funding Process; The First Federal PFAS Lawsuit Settled for a Fraction of Clean Up Costs; Ohio Releases Plan to Restore Lake Erie Water Quality
Freshwater Future Weekly: June 23, 2023
This Week: Judge Orders Enbridge to Shut Down Portions of Line 5 within Three Years; Freshwater Future Welcomes New Board Members; Your Help Is Needed to Improve the Ohio and Pennsylvania Water System Funding Process; Canadian Federal Government Launches Canada Water Agency; Grosse Pointe Park’s Extreme Emergency Release Valve Steers Waste into the Detroit River
Freshwater Future Weekly: June 16, 2023
This Week: Your Help is Needed to Improve the Ohio and Illinois Water System Funding Process; Minnesota Mining Operation’s Wetlands Permit Revoked; EPA Chicago Public Hearing: Federal Coal Ash Rule; Great Coffee Starts With Clean Water – Buy a Lead Water Testing Kit for $40 and Get a Complimentary Bag of Coffee from Superior Coffee Roasting Company