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Demands for change, requests for information pertaining to Flint water settlement
-Activist Jasmine Hall started demands to get residents more money and resources out of the settlement, and Attorney Loyst Fletcher has requested for residents to get more information.
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Drinking WaterEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLatest NewsMichiganNewsWater Quality and Restoration Efforts“I can sum it up in one word, and that is: nightmare.” 10 years after massive oil spill in Michigan
-One of the worst oil spills into an inland waterway in U.S. history happened right here in Michigan, 10 years ago this week.
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Drinking WaterForever Chemicals FeaturedGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLatest NewsNewsPFASResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchNonstick pans often don’t note they use PFAS
-A Michigan-based environmental group has found many nonstick pans are coated with a chemical from the PFAS family.
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Municipalities not lining up for low-interest loans for sewers
-Michigan has an infrastructure problem with raw sewage getting into streams and rivers.
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Drinking WaterEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLatest NewsMichiganNewsWith Line 5 closure, a ‘game of chicken’ over how to heat Upper Peninsula
-Weaning the U.P. of its dependence on Line 5 will likely require investments in rail or truck-based transport. But a month after the order for Enbridge to shutter Line 5 by May, a Plan B for propane has yet to emerge.
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CollaborationDrinking WaterForever Chemicals FeaturedLatest NewsNewsPennsylvaniaPFASPublicSourceResearch, Data and TechnologyPFAS chemicals are ubiquitous. A Pitt scientist is working to protect you from thousands of types at once.
-Two of the ‘forever chemicals’ have been studied widely and show a wide range of harmful effects. A Pitt researcher is helping to tackle the problem: What do we do about the other 4,000+?
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BudgetCollaborationGreat Lakes EchoLake ErieLake HuronLake MichiganLake OntarioLake SuperiorLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeOldest Coast Guard cutter with smallest crew and largest Great Lakes responsibility needs replacing
-A new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service says the Coast Guard is waiting for Congress to approve its proposal to replace up to 35 aging cutters, which average 56 years old.
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CollaborationCOVID-19Cruise ShipsIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake ErieLatest NewsNewsOntarioPolicyWaterfront DevelopmentFamily-owned fishing businesses displaced by waterfront developments on Great Lakes
-Working waterfront access — the access needed by fishing folks to unload their catch, process fish and retrieve ice and fuel — is being affected by coastal gentrification.
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CollaborationDrinking WaterFlintGroundwater ContaminationLatest NewsLeadMichiganNewsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWhat should justice look like for Flint after the water crisis? Residents weigh in
-“It’s so horrible, so wide-ranging, and it affects everything,” one resident said. “There’s no way to put a dollar amount on it, for everyone to be whole again.”
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Drinking WaterGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsWhat the Biden Administration Might Mean For Water
-Circle of Blue reporter Brett Walton hosted a roundtable discussion with three experts about what a Biden administration might mean for federal water policy.