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The U.S. House just voted to regulate PFAS. Here’s what you need to know
-PBS NewsHour laid out what you need to know about PFAS, what the bill means, what the next step is and what existing resistance there is to this bill and why.
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Show Expansion: Great Lakes Now welcomes its new multimedia producer
-Ric Mixter has many years of experience writing about the Great Lakes, producing shows and diving them.
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Enbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentInterviewLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectRecreation, Tourism and CultureRegionScience, Technology, ResearchConsumers Energy Foundation continues its funding for Great Lakes Now’s coverage and programming
-A $330,000 grant helps Great Lakes Now bring you more stories and TV shows about the region’s freshwater resources.
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Report warns of dangers from staff decline at Illinois EPA
-The state’s lack of investment in the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is putting citizens at increased risk of public health issues, according to a report released at the end of November.
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Enbridge private security keeping tabs on activists, reports Interlochen Public Radio
-Interlochen Public Radio obtained emails showing a private security contractor working for Enbridge Energy keeping tabs on anti-Line 5 activists in the Straits of Mackinac.
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ArticleBudgetChicagoCollaborationEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature-ChicagoIllinoisPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectLightfoot’s Actions on Environmental Campaign Promises Are Off to a Slow Start
-Chicago mayor says budget constraints have cooled her ambitious plans. Her 2020 budget includes no new funding for additional pollution inspectors.
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Deepening Our Coverage: Great Lakes Now chosen for Report for America
-A journalist joins our team in 2020. Great Lakes Now, an initiative of Detroit Public TV, was chosen after a national application process for media outlets.
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Fighting invasive species on one island led to plan for all
-Michigan researchers recently created a series of steps to show people how to rid Great Lakes islands of plants and animals that invade their ecosystems.
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PFAS at Niagara Falls airbase
-The Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station ranks seventh on a list of the 100 U.S. military sites most contaminated with PFAS, according to a report issued by the Environmental Working Group.
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BudgetClimate ChangeCollaborationInfrastructureMilwaukeeNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWisconsinGreen Bay ‘Resilience Coordinator’ Would Help City Mitigate Flooding, Fight Climate Change
-Green Bay, Wisconsin, Mayor Eric Genrich has proposed a new position in his 2020 budget to help the city deal with the effects of climate change.
