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Instead of maintaining the laws that protect our water and our health, the legislature wants to weaken or roll back these protections! Our leaders must not move our state backwards.
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In 2008, more than 1.6 million Minnesotans voted for passage of the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment to provide 25 years of increased state funding to protect and clean up state waters and our Great Outdoors. Post-election polling showed the number one reason Minnesotans voted for the Amendment was “cleaning up and protecting Minnesota’s lakes, rivers and streams.”
The Amendment now generates about $85 million a year for water protection and restoration. The constitutional language clearly spells out that the money must “supplement traditional sources of funding” and “may not be used as a substitute.” We must ensure that the Amendment’s Clean Water dollars are not wasted. We must ensure that Minnesotans can look back in 25 years and be confident that our lakes, rivers and streams are measurably cleaner.
MEP Member Organizations working on this issue include:
- Clean Up the River Environment
- Clean Water Action of Minnesota
- Conservation Minnesota
- Environment Minnesota
- Freshwater Society
- Friends of the Mississippi River
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
- Izaak Walton League of America — Midwest Office
- Izaak Walton League of America — Minnesota Division
- Land Stewardship Project
- Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy
- Renewing the Countryside
- Trust for Public Land
The views expressed in these links do not necessarily reflect those of the Minnesota Environmental Partnership.