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PM Trudeau: “You have to protect the environment”
-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a packed house in Chicago last week that to build a strong economy for the future, “you have to protect the environment.”
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Drinking water quality on the line with new Farm Bill
-“The largest land, water and wildlife conservation program for private land owners in the nation” Its formal name is the…
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It’s Pigs versus Pure Michigan
-The push and pull between Michigan’s growing agriculture industry and the need to protect drinking water, beach recreation and tourism continues to play out, evidenced by a request to establish a factory pig farm a few miles from Lake Michigan.
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Plastic plagues the Great Lakes
-“22 million pounds of plastic flow to the Great Lakes each year”
Chicago’s early January temperatures don’t make for beach-going, but beaches free of plastic litter were recently top of mind for Illinois Great Lakes advocates. -