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Drinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeLatest NewsLeadMilwaukeeNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWisconsinWisconsin communities receive $273M for drinking water projects
-State awards financial aid to 86 communities for projects to address lead pipes, PFAS contamination.
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Equity and Environmental JusticeFeature HomepageLatest NewsMinnesotaNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeRecreation and TourismTourismWaves of ChangeWaves of Change: Meet Maji ya Chai Land Sanctuary founder Rebeka Ndosi
-Rebeka Ndosi — founder of Maji ya Chai Land Sanctuary — is a healer, teacher, public speaker and community coach.
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AdvocacyDrinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeLatest NewsNewsPFASPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWisconsinWisconsin Supreme Court to hear case with broad implications for PFAS cleanup
-The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a case that could have sweeping effects on state environmental regulators’ authority to force businesses to clean up PFAS pollution under the state’s spills law.
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Equity and Environmental JusticeFeature HomepageIndianaLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental Justice25 years after a major toxic lead cleanup, westside neighbors still don’t feel safe
-Residents want more soil testing to prevent future harm from contamination that’s plagued their neighborhood for decades.
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AdvocacyEquity and Environmental JusticeLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeThe StatesMichigan advocates hail ‘groundbreaking’ settlement to civil rights complaint over hazardous waste facility
-New requirements to consider cumulative impacts in hazardous waste facility licensing could represent a shift in state permitting practices.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationEquity and Environmental JusticeHistory and CultureIndigenous CommunitiesLatest NewsNewsOntarioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeTribal Governments and First Nations‘These are not your lands to give away’: 6 First Nations take Ontario to court over mining law
-Indigenous communities in Ontario are flooded with mining claims that chip away at their territories. It’s a “racist, colonialist” system, the lawyer leading a new court case said.
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AdvocacyChicagoClimate ChangeEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature HomepageFeature-ChicagoIllinoisLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeScience, Technology, ResearchChicago teachers demand climate solutions in their next contract
-“That contract means nothing if our Earth is on fire.”
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AuthorsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipDetroitDrinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature HomepageGary WilsonGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsDetroit legislator takes the long view on Michigan’s water affordability struggles
-“There are people counting on us to get this done,” says Senator Stephanie Chang in a Great Lakes Now interview.
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Equity and Environmental JusticeHistory and CultureIndigenous CommunitiesLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeTribal Governments and First NationsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsSeneca Nation Sues City for More than 450,000 Gallons of Wastewater Overflow
-The Seneca Nation of western New York officially filed a Notice of a Claim against the City of Olean after its city’s wastewater treatment plant overflowed into the Nation’s waterways for the second time this year.
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Equity and Environmental JusticeFeature HomepageLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWaves of ChangeWaves of Change: Meet Environmental Justice Public Advocate Regina Strong
-We spoke with Regina Strong, Environmental Justice Public Advocate at the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE).
