Daniel Brown 11/15/2023 Pollution Why Michigan farmers need strong polluter pay laws PFAS contamination shuts down 100-year-old Grostic Farms Jason Grostic, a farmer in Livingston County, was trying to do everything right…. Read More »
David Lossing 10/26/2023 Pollution Polluter Pay Bills Need Your Support On Wednesday, October 25, 2023, State Senator Jeff Irwin, State Representative Jason Morgan, State Senator Sue Shink, and five other… Read More »
Daniel Brown 06/12/2023 Pollution Weak polluter accountability laws fail to protect Michigan Michigan’s weak laws on pollution keep regulators from protecting public health from toxic PFAS chemicals. In the early and mid-1990s,… Read More »
Rebecca Esselman 08/16/2022 Pollution Lesson Learned, Stronger Protections Needed It is with great relief that most of the hexavalent chromium solution that Tribar Technologies released into Wixom’s Wastewater Treatment… Read More »
Rebecca Esselman 08/03/2022 Pollution Another Toxic Spill from Tribar Technologies in Wixom, MI Yesterday we learned that the Huron River has been impacted by a major contamination event. Several thousand gallons of hexavalent… Read More »
Rebecca Esselman 11/05/2020 Pollution HRWC Supports Proposed Cleanup of 1,4 dioxane in Gelman Case/Lawsuit Acceptance of Consent Judgment conditioned on continuing involvement in oversight In 2017, the Huron River Watershed Council joined the court… Read More »
Rebecca Esselman 09/01/2020 Pollution Public Release of Proposed Consent Judgement for 1,4-dioxane Groundwater Contamination In 2017, the Huron River Watershed Council joined the case between Gelman Sciences and the State of Michigan to renegotiate… Read More »
Daniel Brown 07/29/2020 PFAS Michigan Sets Drinking Water Standards for Seven PFAS Chemicals Michigan is set to enact new PFAS drinking water standards (known as Maximum Contaminant Levels or MCLs) after rules setting… Read More »
Anita Daley 08/17/2019 Pollution Microplastics and You HRWC is Getting the word out about microplastics in the Huron River and Great Lakes Check out our new videos… Read More »
Daniel Brown 01/30/2019 PFAS Quacker Tracker 2018 In this post, we’ll provide a brief summary of the legislation we were most closely following during the 2018 lame… Read More »
Daniel Brown 11/19/2018 PFAS PFAS in Fish, Game, and Homegrown Foods PFAS can accumulate in the game species we harvest, the fish we catch, and the fruits and vegetables we grow…. Read More »
Rebecca Esselman 11/17/2017 Coal Tar News to Us This edition of News to Us provides news coverage on several major threats to freshwater including plastics, pharmaceuticals, invasive species,… Read More »