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
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
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
The Environmental Fellows Program operates out of the Yale School of the Environment, and provides opportunities for historically underrepresented students in the environmental workforce to gain work experience in environmental philanthropies, the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, and government agencies.
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
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
This week: Canada Proposes Regulations on PFAS Fire Fighting Foam But Leaves Out Consumer Products; Another Settlement with PFAS Chemical Companies; New York’s Lead Pipe Right to Know Act Lands on the Governor’s Desk; Canadian Wildfires Cause Dangerous Air Quality Across the Great Lakes Region; Protecting Waters from Source to Tap Highlighted on Freshwater Future’s Walloon Lake Kayak Tour; Save the Date for Our Next All About Water Convening, In-Person – October 4th in Benton Harbor, Michigan
This Week: Michigan Double Red Flags Mean Don’t Go In the Water; Freshwater Future Strongly Opposes “Doubling” Ships on the St. Lawrence Seaway; Join Freshwater Future’s Executive Director for a Kayak Tour of Walloon Lake; Funds Available for Water Debt Until December!
This week: Supreme Court Ruling is a Blow to Clean Water Protections;100-year Joliet Water Diversion Deal Removes Waters from the Great Lakes; Line 5 Update: Resistance in Wisconsin and Michigan; New Toxic Coal Ash Rules Address Legacy Pollution, Some Loopholes Remain
Wetlands are critical resources for reducing flooding, filtering pollutants and providing critical areas for fish and wildlife to reproduce. In our Great Lakes region, this decision jeopardizes billions of dollars spent on restoring our waters and wetlands, puts homeowners at increased risk of flooding, and threatens the multi-billion dollar industries of fishing, wildlife viewing and recreation.
Copyright 2024 Freshwater Future. All Rights Reserved.
