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Clean Water Action Michigan
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The Great Lakes are pretty cool. We work to protect them + the waters and people in-between. Learn more at cleanwater.org/MI
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⚠️ The future of our #GreatLakes is at risk from North America’s most dangerous oil and gas pipeline. The question is no longer if it will rupture — but when.

Join us on November 18th to learn more and what you can do. RSVP: www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/big_oil_vs_b...

#ShutDownLine5 #StopLine5
Big Oil vs Big Water - November 18th 7-8:30 PM virtual event. How we can shut down North America's most dangerous fossil fuel pipeline.
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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NOAA saves lives.

We need to save NOAA.
Stained glass window in memory of "all seamen who have given their lives on the Great Lakes"
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Happy #GarWeek to all the #CleanWaterKids and adults celebrating!

💧♥️

And if you aren't - learn more and join in the freshwater fun. They're Gareat!
Child holding a drawing of a gar fish
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Election Day info! If you haven't voted early or absentee, make sure your voice is heard!

Go to mi.gov/vote to find your polling place and what's on your ballot.

Questions or problems? Call 866-OUR-VOTE.

#CleanWaterVoter
#MIvoting
How To Vote: November 4 Election You can register to vote at your city or township clerk's office until 8pm on Election Day with proof of residency. Polls are open from 7am-8pm on Election Day. As long as you are in line by 8pm on Election Day, the polls must remain open for you to vote. Questions? Need to report a problem voting? Call the nonpartisan Election Protection Hotline at (866) OUR-VOTE MichiganVoting.org
November 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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#HappyHalloween from our Ann Arbor crew, heading out to get petition signatures for Michiganders For $ Out Of politics! 🎃

Join the fun and let's make the utilities scared of *us*! 👻 Go to MopUpMichigan.org and let's take back our democracy!

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October 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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High energy $ and outages frustrating you? Be part of the solution! Go to cleanwater.org/MIvolunteer to join the fight to get Money out of MI Politics. Want to sign? Find a @michiganmop.bsky.social petition at #NoKings rallies across the state Saturday. Let's take our democracy back!
October 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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We're at Umich EarthFest until 2pm - come by, say hi, and get involved!

#AnnArbor
Tabling on the UM Ann Arbor Diag
September 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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We're at the 2025 Michigan Climate Summit in Lansing today!

Stop by our table and say hi (and sign the @michiganmop.bsky.social petition!), and hear updates from Clean Water Action staff on Get Money Of Politics panel at 11:30 and Line 5 at 1:30pm. ♥️💧

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Clean Water Action conference table Posing with origami fish and shut down line 5 signs
September 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Honor The Treaties.
Protect Clean Water.
#ShutDownLine5 #NoTunnel

Take action before Friday 8/29
Cleanwater.org/NoTunnel

#WaterIsLife
#GreatLakes

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August 29, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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TY to everyone who came out today, written letters, folded origami 🐟 (to break a world record!), spoken out, and shared the message! ♥️💧

Comment period for the tunnel permit closes THIS FRIDAY 8/29. Send yours now if you haven't yet: cleanwater.org/NoTunnel

#ShutDownLine5 2/2
Walking boxes of letters to EGLE with shut down line 5 signs Group of clean water action staff holding shut down. Line five pipeline signs Holding a child's drawing that says stop line 5. Tunnel in the vestibule of the the building that EGLE is in Wide shot at press conference with reporters and supporters and Michigan Capital behind
August 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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We just joined @owdm.bsky.social @michigansierra.bsky.social & friends in Lansing to drop off 1000s of letters for Gov Whitmer and EGLE!

From Detroit to the UP, Michiganders are saying to protect our #GreatLakes and #PureMichigan from the Line 5 Pipeline and the dangerous tunnel scheme. 1/2
Two people holding shutdown line five pipeline signs next to a display of origami fish. It's a large cloth with many paper fish attached to it Group of about a dozen people holding fish in the air with the Michigan capital in the background holding shutdown line five pipeline signs Press conference with the origami fish in the background as well as the Michigan Capitol Group delivering boxes of letters in the building where Governor whitmer's office is
August 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Dear Governor Whitmer:

Please don't let Mary down. ♥️💧

#ShutDownLine5 #NoTunnel #MondayMotivation #CleanWaterKids #GreatLakes #PureMichigan

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Write your own letter before EGLE's 8/29 deadline: cleanwater.org/NoTunnel
August 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Awesome news - We're ready to hit the ground with petitions and clipboards in hand for @michiganmop.bsky.social! 📋

➡️ Go to cleanwater.org/MIvolunteer to connect with our awesome canvass volunteer coordinators and check out MopUpMichigan.org/events for town hall near you or online to learn more!
August 23, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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"All political power is inherent in the people" - Michigan Constitution. They might have the money, but we will always have our power. 📋 Join us @ MopUpMichigan.org!

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August 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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When regulated utilities and corporations with government contracts spend big $$$ on Michigan politics, the rest of us lose our voice. We're ready to change that. Go to MopUpMichigan.org to learn more and get involved!

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August 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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The Voting Rights Act turns 60 years old today. We've made great progress in Michigan since 2018, but we still have a long way to go to ensure a fair democracy where every voice is heard and the constitutional right to vote is protected for all.
Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part. Rep. John Lewis from Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America
August 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Polls are open and local elections matter! Make your voice heard!

#CleanWaterVoter #MIvoting
How To Vote: August 5 Election VOTE You can register to vote at your city or township clerk's office until 8pm on Election Day with proof of residency. Polls are open from 7am-8pm on Election Day. As long as you are in line by 8pm on Election Day, the polls must remain open for you to vote. ? Questions? Need to report a problem voting? Call the nonpartisan Election Protection Hotline at (866) OUR-VOTE
August 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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C! W! A!

Our most recent team just returned from another week up north in Traverse City! TY to the hundreds of community members who donated and wrote letters to EGLE & Gov Whitmer! ♥️💧

It's time to #ShutDownLine5 and end the oil tunnel plan! cleanwater.org/NoTunnel
Clean Water Action staff posing holding hands in C W A shapes
August 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Tomorrow is Election Day for many Michiganders! Cast your ballot or turn in your absentee (remember to sign the envelope like your ID) before 8pm. You can still register and vote at your clerk's office with proof of residency, too!

Questions? Go to michiganvoting.org

#MIvoting #CleanWaterVoter
Hey voter! Find out if your community is holding an election on August 5 by going to: mi.gov/vote. Learn more at MichiganVoting.org
August 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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"All political will is inherent in the people". That's in the Michigan Constitution.

But for too long monopoly utilities and large corporations with big state government contracts have had louder voices than the rest of us combined.

We're gonna change that.

Get involved!

🔗 MopUpMichigan.org
Sean McBrearty, the state director of Clean Water Action, said that the corrosive influence of corporate money on state politics drowns out the voices of Michigan residents. “The worst examples of this influence come when corporations that are reliant on government support and intervention for their profits, namely monopoly utilities and government contractors, spend huge amounts of money ensuring that they have the support of lawmakers who are supposed to be voting in the best interests of their constituents,” McBrearty said. The initiative is focused on utilities and other businesses with large government contracts in excess of $250,000. When asked why the ballot initiative was essentially stopping at utility companies, McBrearty said the group studied a list of state contractors when it was making its legislative moves. Concerns abounded during that work, McBrearty said, and led to the meat of the Michiganders for Money Out of Politics proposal. The $250,000 figure was chosen because Taking Back Our Power saw that the companies getting state contracts at less than $250,000 were largely service based, like lawn mowing. “Lawn mowing, laundry, cleaning, office buildings. … They’re not the people who are buying our government,” McBrearty said. “We want to stop the corrupt practices of corporations that are getting these huge contracts and the regulated utilities from buying our government, and so those who are getting smaller contracts are not the ones that we’re concerned about.” Targeting a ban on political contributions from regulated monopolies was the path forward to start addressing dark money concerns because there was precedent for that, McBrearty added. “Secondly, there’s a strong record of fact that the contributions of DTE, Consumers and others who fall into that category have a corrupting influence on the legislative process in Lansing,” he said. “I think this is definitely not a cure all for all the problems with campaign finance and with our democracy. This is … a major step forward that will make things more accountable and more representative of the people of Michigan in Lansing.”
June 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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We need a #MichiganForTheMany, not a Michigan for monopoly corporations and billionaires.

#TakingBackOurPower
June 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Glad to join @fairshareamerica.bsky.social and allies in Lansing today, standing up for the people - not more billionaire profit! ✊
Big green bus outside MI Capitol - "Stop the billionaire giveaway, trillions for billionaires, put families over billionaires"
June 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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⚠️ HR 3898 is a group of anti-clean water bills giving corporate polluters more power to contaminate the rivers, lakes, & streams we rely on. It’s a reckless attack on the clean water safeguards we rely on.

📲 Call Your US Rep! #VoteNoOnHR3898
(202) 224-3121

#ProtectCleanWater #StopTheDirtyWaterBill
Dear Representative, On behalf of our millions of members and supporters, the undersigned organizations urge you to oppose H.R. 3898, the “Promoting Efficient Review for Modern Infrastructure Today Act,” or PERMIT Act, a suite of anti-clean water legislation that will be coming before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee this week. This package of bills is a reckless attack on our clean water safeguards, and would jeopardize the waters that our families, communities, businesses, and wildlife depend on. Clean water should not be a tool for political stunts or favors to industry donors – people from the most rural communities to the most densely populated cities all rely on our bedrock clean water protections every day. Numerous provisions in these harmful bills would shield industrial dischargers who pollute or destroy our streams, lakes, wetlands, and other waters from responsibility and accountability, thereby forcing our communities to shoulder the financial and public health burden of increased pollution and flooding. announced, this Congressional dirty water scheme would merely prioritize industry profits over public health. Unlike the proponents of these bills and their polluter allies, people want and support stronger federal protections for our nation’s waters. Too many communities, especially Indigenous communities, rural communities, communities of color, and low wealth communities, still lack clean water. Instead of attempting to undermine clean water safeguards, Congress should be focused on putting people before polluters and working to ensure everyone, no matter their race, zip code, or income, has access to clean water. Again, we urge you to oppose H.R. 3898, a suite of anti-clean water legislation that would endanger the waters our families and communities depend on and undermine the Clean Water Act’s objective “to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters.” Sincerely, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments Amigos Bravos Anacostia Riverkeeper Bayou City Waterkeeper Chesapeake Bay Foundation Chesapeake Legal Alliance Citizens Committee to Complete the Refuge City of Goshen, Indiana, Stormwater Department Clean River Partners Clean Water Action Climate Justice Alliance Committee on the Middle Fork Vermilion River Community Water Center Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania CURE Earthjustice Elkhart River Restoration Association Endangered Habitats League Environmental Integrity Project EPCAMR Flow Water Advocates Food & Water Watch Freshwater Future Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness Friends of the Mississippi River GreenLatinos Hoosier Environmental Council Huron River Watershed Council Hydropower Reform Coalition Illinois Environmental Council Indiana Conservation Voters Indiana Wetlands Association Iowa Environmental Council Kentucky Resources Council Kentucky Waterways Alliance Labadie Environmental Organization Land Stewardship Project League of Conservation Voters Miami Waterkeeper Michigan League of Conservation Voters Mill Creek Alliance Minnesota Division Izaak Walton League of America Minnesota Environmental Partnership National Wildlife Federation Natural Resources Defense Council Northern Waters Land Trust Nuclear Information and Resource Service NY/NJ Baykeeper Ohio River Foundation One Mississippi Owen-Putnam Friends of the Forest Park Watershed PennFuture Penobscot BayWatch Riverkeeper Satilla Riverkeeper ShoreRivers Sierra Club Socially Responsible Agriculture Project South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Southern Environmental Law Center U.S. Climate Action Network Universal Access to Clean Water for Tribal Communities Vermont Conservation Voters Waterkeeper Alliance Waterkeepers Chesapeake WaterLegacy Wildlife for All
June 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Tonight! Join the fight to #ShutDownLine5 in person in Traverse City or online!

Protect our #GreatLakes and our freshwater future. ♥️💧 See you there!

Zoom Link/Ticket Purchase:
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END OF THE LINE: Great Lakes Over Big Oil. JUNE 4, 2025 6PM-8PM The Alluvion Traverse City & Online Michiganders have the power to shut down Line 5 once and for all. Learn how you can take action to keep our Great Lakes safe.
June 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Speak out! cleanwater.org/NoTunnel

#ShutDownLine5
May 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM