The Great Lakes Environmental Law Center is the only nonprofit environmental law organization headquartered in Michigan that provides support to community members facing challenges to provide clean, safe, affordable, and healthy water resources to people in Michigan. With previous support from the Mott Foundation, the grantee has provided support to help citizens understand the strengths and weaknesses of legal approaches to address water challenges, and has then designed customized approaches to addressing those issues through litigation, policy change, or a combination of these and other tools. The grantee has helped groups address issues including drinking water quality and water affordability, as well as wetland, stream, and groundwater protection. With this grant renewal, the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center will continue its services to address these ongoing issues and will add the growing concern of contamination from PFAS chemicals to its work.
The Great Lakes Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit environmental law organization headquartered in Michigan that provides support to community members facing challenges in securing clean and affordable drinking water and healthy natural water resources. With previous support from the Mott Foundation, the grantee has helped Michigan residents navigate legal approaches to address water challenges and identified solutions for various water issues. The grantee has assisted groups working on water quality, drinking water affordability and the protection of lakes, wetlands and streams. With this renewed support, the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center will continue its services to address ongoing water issues, such as contamination from toxic and persistent chemicals and water diversions from the Great Lakes basin.
