Episode 237 - Joel Brammeier
The Cripescast Podcast
Charlie Berens
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Joel Brammeier is passionate about the Great Lakes. Whether it was as a kid exploring their shorelines in the Detroit suburbs, or as the president and CEO of Alliance for the Great Lakes today, he's always been drawn to them. With 20% of the Earth’s fresh surface water belonging to the Great Lakes, Joel explains how crucial it is that we start taking microplastics seriously and that “regulation” doesn’t need to be a bad term when it comes to water. Instead, it can be a helpful tool that puts laws into place that keeps not only our drinking water clean, but our beer too. He and Charlie discuss the Great Lakes Compact, why microplastics are bad for us, and what the implications of recent government budget cuts will mean for environmental agencies. Joel also shares what makes him say “cripes!” which is something all parents of teenagers can relate to. All that and more on this episode of the Cripescast.
For more information about Joel’s work and to get involved head to www.greatlakes.org.
Follow the Alliance for Great Lakes on social:
Bluesky – @alliancegreatlakes.bsky.social
Instagram – alliance4greatlakes
Facebook – AlliancefortheGreatLakes
Check out his latest Op-ed in the Sun Times: https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/03/20/epa-cuts-great-lakes-states-clean-water-lead-lines-flooding-joel-brammeier
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Krepskast. This week we are talking with Joe Bromeyer. He is the president and CEO of |
| 0:06.6 | the Alliance for the Great Lakes. It's a great organization that is all about the health and the |
| 0:13.3 | wellness of the Great Lakes, which provides all of us with real nice looking at, you know, |
| 0:19.5 | they're nice to look at, they're nice to swim in, |
| 0:21.8 | they're nice to fishing. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm a fan of all that sort of stuff. |
| 0:24.4 | So it was just nice chit-chat with Joel about what's going on with them now, especially |
| 0:29.5 | as there's a new administration coming in and what that means for funding and what that |
| 0:35.0 | means for just our, our health, our water quality, all that sort of stuff. |
| 0:40.9 | So it was good, good chit-chat. And you guys know if you listen to this podcast, I am a huge |
| 0:46.4 | hippie when it comes to the environmental stuff. Love fishing. Love bird watching, love hunting, |
| 0:52.1 | love all that and love the things that we can do to help make that stuff better for everyone. |
| 0:58.8 | Hunting, too. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, the whole deal, you know. |
| 1:03.6 | Anyways, good conversation with Joel. |
| 1:06.1 | It was fun. |
| 1:08.1 | And I hope you guys enjoy it. |
| 1:10.2 | All right. |
| 1:13.0 | Let's get to my interview with Joe Bromier. |
| 1:15.0 | You got a really nice hair. |
| 1:17.8 | I'm very thankful for that. |
| 1:27.2 | It's my grandpa, what I'm hoping is where my hair came from, live to either 102 or 104, and had basically a full head of hair |
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