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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipDrinking WaterFeature LeadInfrastructureLatest NewsLeadMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWhy are so many Michigan water systems finding lead? They’re looking harder
-Benton Harbor is likely just the beginning. Since the southwest Michigan community’s prolonged lead-in-water crisis began making national headlines this fall, residents of Hamtramck, Wayne and Manchester have all learned that their water, too, exceeded government lead standards.
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Company formerly known as Nestle drops water withdrawal permit
-Blue Triton Brands, formerly known as Nestle Waters North America, has withdrawn its controversial permit allowing the company to extract more Michigan groundwater near Evart, Michigan.
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Michigan’s balmy October means more mosquitos, peril for coldwater fish
-Nearly three weeks into October, much of Michigan remains stuck in early autumn mode, fueling frustration for fall anglers, exaltation for late-season swimmers, and itchiness for anyone who ventures outside for too long without bug spray.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Groups Lauded a Side Agreement at the Paris Climate Conference. Then It Languished.
-The fate of the Paris Pact reveals the difficulties in incorporating water into global climate agreements.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesEquity and Environmental JusticeIndigenous CommunitiesIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMichiganNewsOntarioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeTribal Governments and First NationsU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsMichigan tribes to Biden: Enbridge Line 5 threatens our treaty rights
-As Canada leans on an international treaty to keep oil flowing through Line 5, Michigan Native American tribal leaders want the Biden administration to acknowledge that the pipeline’s fate affects their treaty rights, too.
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Will taxpayers bear the cost of cleaning up America’s abandoned oil wells?
-Oil and gas companies have a century-old bad habit of drilling wells and ditching them. And while Congress finally has a plan to plug some abandoned wells, new proposals effectively pass the fossil fuel industry’s cleanup costs on to taxpayers and may even enable more drilling.
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Indigenous leaders face barriers to UN climate conference
-Indigenous leaders are largely being excluded from participation in the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference as the world grapples with escalating problems from floods, fires, heat, drought and other disasters.
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CollaborationDrinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeGroundwater ContaminationLatest NewsNewsPFASWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWisconsin‘Something has to be done’: Living along Madison’s Starkweather Creek, one of Wisconsin’s most polluted waterways.
-In 2019, Wisconsin’s Starkweather Creek contained higher levels of PFOA and PFOS — two more scrutinized types of PFAS — than any other waters the Department of Natural Resources tested that year. At the creek’s Fair Oaks Avenue crossing, the DNR detected levels of PFOS at 270 parts per trillion and PFOA at 43 ppt.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipDrinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature LeadLatest NewsLeadNewsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsIn Benton Harbor, residents’ complaints of lead-tainted water carry echoes
-Dangerously high lead levels have appeared in water tests in this low-income, majority Black community since 2018. Residents and activists say they fear the problem dates back longer, with Flint’s crisis as a backdrop.
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Missed Acid Delivery at Root of Midwest Plant Iron Discharge: US Steel Correspondence
-In a document sent to the state, U.S. Steel Corp. said a chain of events kicked off by a missed acid delivery to its Midwest Plant in Portage led to a large discharge of iron into a nearby waterway in late September.
