Ron’s Give to the Max Day fundraiser for MCEA

Who are you going to call?

When a daycare worker heard of massive lead pollution just down the street.  Who did they call? Not the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the state agency responsible for protecting us from pollution and who knew for years about the nearby danger, but failed to act, they called the nonprofit legal law firm: Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy.  Here's the story:

https://www.startribune.com/epa-foundry-has-been-polluting-minneapolis-air-since-2018-minnesota-pollution-control-agency-mpca/600318010/

On May 26th the EPA did a surprise inspection on Smith Foundry in South Minneapolis and discovered serious violations of the federal Clean Air Act involving lead pollution.  The EPA violations report revealed that from 2018 to 2023 Smith Foundry had been polluting the neighborhood. Five months after the raid one of our attorneys received a call from the daycare employee asking for our help. 

MCEA is best known for using law and science to stop sulfide mining in northern Minnesota; championing the passing of the 2023 PFAS legislation; and the passage of the 100 percent clean energy law. But we are also a watchdog ensuring that environmental laws are implemented and enforced, holding corporations, politicians and agencies accountable for actions that harm Minnesotans, particularly those communities most negatively impacted by environmental degradation: like the children in the Phillips neighborhood daycare center.  

All of us want to leave a clean environment for our children and our grandchildren.

Allow us to hold our agencies accountable; allow us to hold the polluters accountable.  Any amount will help us answer the call.

Thank you,

Ron Sternal

Board Member