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| Today, Environment Michigan is releasing Our Great Waters, a new report that outlines the regional, environmental, and economic significance of eight of America’s most treasured waterways. Because of their ecological significance, Environment Michigan has named the Great Lakes as some of America’s “Great Waters.” This report lays out the specific problems facing each of the eight water bodies and potential legislative fixes. The release of this report comes a week before a key vote in the Environment and Public Works committee in the U.S. Senate – next week the committee will vote on several bills to restore our great waters. | |
| Streams and wetlands in Michigan are at risk of unlimited pollution, according to a report released today by Environment Michigan, Courting Disaster: How the Supreme Court Has Broken the Clean Water Act and Why Congress Must Fix It. One case study highlighted in this report is Cedar Lake in Michigan that is at risk of losing Clean Water Act protections. The report also provides 30 case studies demonstrating how the federal Clean Water Act is broken and calls on Representative Mark Schauer to fix it. | |
| ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Toxic chemicals used in natural gas drilling could pose a threat to water quality near Michigan’s 10,327 gas wells according to a report released today by Environment Michigan. The report, Toxic Chemicals on Tap: How Gas Drilling Threatens Drinking Water, details how the chemicals in gas drilling could endanger clean water in Michigan. | |
| Industrial facilities dumped 575,930 pounds of toxic chemicals into Michigan’s waterways, according to a report released today by Environment Michigan: Wasting Our Waterways: Industrial Toxic Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act. The report also finds that toxic chemicals were discharged in 1,900 waterways across all 50 states. | |
| Environment Michigan applauds Representatives Ehlers (Mich.) and Oberstar (Minn.), Senators Levin (Mich.) and Voinovich (Ohio) and the U.S. Congress for passing bipartisan legislation to clean up toxic contamination in the Great Lakes. | |
| Environment Michigan applauds Representatives Ehlers (Mich.) and Oberstar (Minn.), Senators Levin (Mich.) and Voinovich (Ohio) and the U.S. Congress for passing bipartisan legislation to clean up toxic contamination in the Great Lakes. | |
| Washington, DC – Environment Michigan applauded the U.S. House of Representatives for voting (390 to 25) to pass the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin Water Resources Compact (S.J.Res. 45), which ensures more sustainable use of Great Lakes water. | |
| Environment Michigan issued a new report today on water efficiency to boost its case for the Great Lakes Compact that is swiftly moving in Congress. The report — Using Water Wisely — calculates that six Southwestern states could save as much as 1.86 trillion gallons of water per year by dramatically improving efficiency of water use. | |
| Ann Arbor — With families across Michigan headed to the Great Lakes for the Fourth of July holiday, Environment Michigan and the Huron River Watershed Council joined Congressman John Dingell near the Huron River to urge Congress to protect the Great Lakes and pass the Clean Water Restoration Act (H.R. 2421 and S. 1870). | |
| More than 49% percent of industrial and municipal facilities across Michigan discharged more pollution into our waterways than their Clean Water Act permits allow in 2005, according to Troubled Waters: An analysis of Clean Water Act compliance, a new report released today by Environment Michigan Research & Policy Center. | |
| Environment Michigan today presented BP and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials with more than 65,000 signatures from Great Lakes region residents demanding a halt to BP's unprecedented expansion of pollution into Lake Michigan. | |
| Beach closings and warnings due to pollution dropped in Michigan, according to the 17th annual beach water quality report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Using data just collected from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the report, “Testing the Waters: A Guide to Water Quality at Vacation Beaches,†tallied 124 closing and health advisory days in 2006, a 47 percent decline from the year before. | |
| A ban on the sale of certain products containing mercury, including thermostats and blood pressure monitors, passed the Michigan Senate today. The House of Representatives now has until the end of December to pass these bills before session ends in order to protect Michigan’s children and the state’s unparalleled natural resources from unnecessary exposure to this neurotoxin. | |
| Beach closings and warnings due to bacterial contamination dropped in Michigan, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council’s annual report released today by Environment Michigan and Clean Water Action. | |