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February 2020 Newsletter

  1. Injection Wells

    Injection Wells

  2. Other

    Other

  3. Potash Mining

    Potash Mining

  4. Water Grabs

    Water Grabs

Newsletter: February 2020

MCWC celebrates twenty years fighting water privatization and pollution across Michigan, achieving victories in coalition work on water shutoffs, Line 5, and environmental justice while continuing Nestlé legal challenges.

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Summary

  • MCWC reflects on twenty years fighting water privatization, pollution, and environmental destruction across Michigan
  • Michigan Court of Appeals overturns ruling favoring Nestle’s Osceola County booster station permit
  • Supreme Court allows Flint residents’ class action lawsuit against officials to proceed forward
  • EGLE approves US Ecology toxic waste expansion in Detroit despite five years of community opposition
  • MCWC submits unpublished opinion piece countering Michigan Potash Company’s misleading media claims about mine
  • Eleven Class I injection well permit renewals raise concerns about fracking waste disposal expansion
  • State officials repeatedly refuse to meet with MCWC or respond to environmental justice complaints
  • Michigan Court of Appeals to hear fracking ban ballot initiative case on March third
  • Senate Bill 431 threatens local zoning control over gravel mines and industrial development decisions
  • Water protection bills introduced to ban bottled water exports from Great Lakes watershed region
  • Detroit officials seek Governor Whitmer’s declaration of moratorium on water shutoffs amid health crisis
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