This Week: Water Is Life Festival is One Month Away; Meet Freshwater Future’s Spring Grantee: Sterling Water Stewards; Eurasian Ruffe Is Spreading; Get the Lead Out and Plastic In?; Lake Erie’s Harmful Algal Bloom + Lake Erie Alive
Freshwater Future Weekly: July 26, 2024
This Week: Mining Permit Withdrawn with Your Advocacy; Comment on New U.S. EPA Rule to Protect Public Water Utilities; New Research Warns of “Forever Chemical” Skin Absorption; Meet Freshwater Future’s Spring Grantee: Oscoda Citizens for Clean Water; Fall Grant Cycle is Open; Join our Monthly Giving Circle!
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
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
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 28, 2024
This Week: New Stamp Honors Grandmother Water Walker Josephine Mandamin; Thank You to the Erb Family Foundation; Polluters Sue Over New PFAS Regulation; Have You Seen this Jellyfish in the Great Lakes? Take a Picture
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
Nuclear Power in the Great Lakes Region–the Risks to Water Quality and Public Health
Freshwater Futures break down some of the most recent news on nuclear waste storage, transport, and facilities in the Great Lakes
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
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
