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WATER, FLOWERS, AND LIFE

May 28, 2026 | By Julie Wedge
This Water a Flower Day has me reflecting on how lucky I am that my husband has an incredibly green thumb. I can grow food and, in fairness, those plants flower, too. However, the beautiful explosion of colors in our yard all year long must be completely credited to my better half.
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Michigan needs a strong statewide sanitary code

May 9, 2018 | By Sean McBrearty
Each year, 9.4 billion gallons of raw sewage flow into our lakes and rivers from leaking septic systems, but Michigan is the only state in the U.S. without a uniform sanitary code requiring periodic inspections of septic systems. For years, we have been working to address this problem, by
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Septic tank lid. photo: flickr.com/mmwm (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
When it comes to your grocery cart, it's all about choice.

Fair Farms, Wise Choice

May 8, 2018 | By Emily Ranson
Last year, Clean Water Action, along with our partners in Fair Farms and the MD Keep Antibiotics Working coalition, passed legislation that phases out the use of antibiotics to treat healthy animals. Antibiotics can still be used to treat and control disease outbreaks. Some of the largest chicken
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Minnesota State Capitol-Drew Geraets

Mid-Session Defense Update

April 24, 2018 | By Deanna White
We are halfway through the Minnesota 2018 legislative session and it’s been made clear that some of our lawmakers are not willing to put our environment and public health first. They are placing policies that ignore science and weaken protections for our land, air, and water before people. Even
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