This Week: United by Our Shared Voices; Spring Grant Cycle Open; Determine Learning Sessions; Protect Waterways from Federal Deregulation; Indiana Residents – Urgent Action; Development Threatens Clean Water and Sovereignty of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation; Win! Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules in Favor
This Week: Win! The Michigan Affordable Water Now Package! Improved Clean Water Protections for Michigan’s Factory Farms; U.S. Non-Profits: Take Action and Review Your New GoFundMe Donation Page; Mindfulness and Meditation; Freshwater Future’s Statement on the Recent Private Water Utility Mega-Merger
This week: Join Us at Patagonia in Chicago; October’s Mindfulness Session; FREE bag of coffee from Superior Coffee Roasting Co.; No Federal Funds for For-Profit Wastewater Systems; Contact U.S. Lawmakers to Protect Our Water; New NASA Nuclear Power Program in Cleveland Threatens Clean Water; Advocates Push Ontario to Take Action on Lead Pipes
This Week: Win! West Michigan Lake Remediated and Removed from Toxic Site List; Join for October’s Online Mindfulness Session; During October, Donate and Receive a FREE Bag of Coffee from Superior Coffee Roasting Co.; Continue Contacting U.S. Lawmakers to Protect Our Water; Connecting with Community
This Week: Join Our 2025 Walk, Paddle, & Roll; #WeAreLakeErie; Fall Project Grant Q&A Webinar; Tell Michigan’s EGLE to Deny the Line 5 Tunnel Permit; Support Improved Equity in the Michigan Water Fund; Protect Lake Superior and the Porcupine Mountains State Park; Pennsylvania Municipality Stands Up for Affordable Water; Canada Awards Funding to Great Lakes Restoration Projects
This Week: Celebrating Safe Drinking Water for Erie, PA Students; Stand with Protect the Porkies: No Taxpayer Dollars for the Copperwood Mine – Again; Michigan Residents Deserve Meaningful Public Engagement; Work Proceeds to Stop Invasive Carp; Pittsburgh Residents Overwhelmingly Vote to Keep their Water System Public
This Week: [Take Action] No Taxpayer Dollars for the Copperwood Mine – Again; [Take Action] Michigan Residents Deserve Meaningful Public Engagement; Join Our Monthly Mindfulness + Movement; New Law Shifts Water System Control in Birmingham, AL; Ontario Students Raising Money and Educating to Protect Water
This Week: Water Watchers & Wellness Webinar: Fundraising Basics Webinar; Your Voice Needed to Protect Wetlands and Clean Water; We Need the Lake Erie Harmful Algal Bloom Forecast; Freshwater Voices Newsletter Available Online; Register for April’s Mindfulness & Movement; Blog – Against All Odds: How Water Advocates Are Winning in 2025
This Week: Win! Federal Great Lakes + Environmental Justice Staff Reinstated; Applications Open for Canadian Freshwater Sustainability and Innovation Projects; Biggest Deregulatory Effort in History; Great Lakes Agreements on the Chopping Block; EPA to Reduce Federal Wetlands Protections Even Further; Don’t Miss Out on These Freshwater Opportunities
This Week: Deadline March 31st: Freshwater Future’s Spring Project Grants; Meet Our Fall Project Grantees: Protect The Porkies; Legislators Say No to Undercutting the Clean Water Act; Cuts and Dismantling of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Register for Mindfulness and Movement on March 27th!
This Week: Freshwater Future’s Spring Project Grants; Meet Water Watchers; Join Us in Rochester, NY for All About Water; Advocates Work for Improvements in the Steel Industry; Freshwater Heroes Celebration; Join Us for Movement & Mindfulness; Black Lake Sturgeon Season Lasts 17 Minutes–Sets Record for Shortest Time!
This Week: Urgent Action: Proposed Energy Bill Would Harm the Great Lakes; Donate to the Walk, Paddle, and Roll Fundraiser Goal by 9/30; Your Voice is Needed to Improve Michigan’s + Indiana’s Water System Funding; Deadline September 30th for Freshwater Future’s Fall Project Grants; Recognizing the Human Right to Utilities at the National Level
This Week: Urgent Action: Proposed Energy Bill Would Harm the Great Lakes; Finish Line in Sight! Help Us Reach Our Walk, Paddle, and Roll Fundraiser Goal; Deadline September 30th: Freshwater Future’s Fall Project Grants; Your Voice is Needed to Improve Michigan + New York’s Water System Funding; Free Lead Renovation, Repair, and Painting (RRP) Training; Register for Movement & Mindfulness with Us
This Week: Urgent Action: Proposed Energy Bill Would Harm Water–Call + Email your Senator Today; Support Freshwater Future–Donate to Our Walk, Paddle, and Roll Fundraiser; Join Us on September 17th! Water Wars: How Corporations Play the Long Game; Did You Miss the Fall Project Grant Webinar? No Worries, Recording Available; Invasive Aquatic Plant Found in Canada for the First Time
This Week: Don’t Miss The Water is Life Festival; Walk, Paddle, and Roll with Us; Meet Our Spring Grantees: Capital Area Friends of the Environment; Freshwater Voices Newsletter Available Online; Are Private Water Companies Paying a “Fair Market Value” for our Water Systems?; Join Us For Our Virtual Monthly Wellness Session
This Week: We Are Lake Erie Day; A Landmark Victory for Great Lakes Water Protection: Michigan Supreme Court Upholds EGLE’s Authority; Fall Grant Cycle is Open; Join Us on August 22nd for Freshwater Future’s Virtual Monthly Wellness Session; One Year Later: Lake Ontario Chemical Spill Clean Up Failure and Cover Up
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!
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.
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
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
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
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
This Week: Wonders of the Great Lakes 2024 Online Auction; Register for Next Week’s Mindfulness and Movement Monthly Wellness Session; Petition: Tell the White House and U.S. EPA to Finalize the Lead and Copper Rule ASAP; Freshwater Future at River Rally: Heroes, Lead Education, and Water Affordability!
This Week: Wonders of the Great Lakes 2024 Online Auction Starts May 17th; Register for Freshwater Future’s May Mindfulness and Movement Monthly Wellness Session; Reflections and Recording from Great Lakes CAFO + HABs Conference; Minnesota State Park to be Shuttered for Iron Mine;The Cost of Climate Change in Canada: $139B in Next 30 Years
This Week: Earth Day is Every Day: Six Simple Actions You Can Do to Protect Water; You Can Still Virtually Attend the Great Lakes Harmful Algae Conference May 1-2; Save the Date: Wonders of the Great Lakes 2024 Online Auction; Sign the Petition and Stand with Pennsylvania: Our Water is Not for Sale; Forested Wetland to be Destroyed for Landfill After Years-Long Fight
This Week: Join Us at the Great Lakes Harmful Algae Conference May 1-2 in Toledo, OH; Register for Freshwater Future’s Mindfulness and Movement Monthly Wellness Session on April 25th; Save the Date for Wonders of the Great Lakes 2024 Online Auction; Public Trust Podcast – Wisconsin’s Battle with Forever Chemicals
This Week:Congratulations to Our Freshwater Heroes – Celebration Recording and Newsletter Available; Campbell Sued by Advocates, Federal Government Over Lake Erie Pollution; Join Us at the Great Lakes Harmful Algae Conference – Registration is Open; Important Public Hearing on Mineral Rights Request for over 10,000 Acres in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula – Your Voice Needed; EPA Creates National Drinking Water Regulation for Forever Chemicals
This Week: Join Us Next Week on April 10th for Our Freshwater Heroes Celebration; Mining Company Withdraws Lease Application; Thank you to Our Volunteers and Supporters at Grand Rapids Gold Season Finale Game; Join Us at the Great Lakes Harmful Algae Conference; Register for Freshwater Future’s April 25th Mindfulness and Movement Monthly Wellness Sessions
This Week: LAST CHANCE! Spring Project Grants are Open Until March 30th; Report Card on Drinking Water Funding; Fighting Predatory Water System Pricing and Privatization in Pennsylvania; Freshwater Future Participates in March Madness with the Grand Rapids Gold; Comment on EGLE’s Public Participation Policy – Deadline March 31st!
This Week: Happy World Water Day! LAST CHANCE! Spring Project Grants are Open Until March 30th! Federal Judge Finds City of Flint, MI in Contempt Over Slow Lead Line Replacement; Freshwater Future Participates in March Madness with the Grand Rapids Gold Basketball Team on March 30th; Join Us at the Great Lakes Harmful Algae Conference – Registration is Open!
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