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Road salt is everywhere during winter months. It keeps us safe on roads and sidewalks, but it can also pose a threat to fish and wildlife as well as human health. Request a FREE Salt Watch test kit to find out whether excess road salt is a problem in your community.
After another great year of Save Our Streams, the League has much to celebrate! From the Clean Water Hub to SOS to Winter Salt Watch, our clean water initiatives are accomplishing incredible things.
One of America’s largest and most successful land conservation programs is at risk. For 35 years, the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) has rewarded farmers for taking millions of acres of highly erodible, environmentally sensitive cropland out of production – much of it land that should never have been plowed in the first place. Through CRP, farmers...
The Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in northeastern Minnesota is a pristine landscape of lakes and forests and is the most visited wilderness area in the United States. But a foreign mining company has proposed opening a copper-sulfide operation just outside the BWCAW, right on top of the streams and rivers that feed the wilderness.
The Trump Administration has submitted its budget request for Fiscal Year 2021 to Congress. Unfortunately, this request proposes deep and counterproductive cuts in conservation, environmental protection, and public land management – just like the last three years. Once again, the administration’s proposal jeopardizes...
In late January, the Trump Administration announced that it had finalized new policy that fundamentally weakens Clean Water Act protections for drinking water, streams, and wetlands nationwide. Small streams and wetlands across America are now...