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Posted inAbout Great Lakes Now, Drinking Water, Drinking Water News Roundup, Featured, Illinois, Indiana, Latest News, Michigan, News, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Politics, Region, Water Quality, Who We Are and What We Do, Wisconsin

Drinking Water News Roundup: EPA won’t regulate rocket fuel, Illinois prison water contaminated with Legionella

by Natasha Blakely April 15, 2022
Posted inDrinking Water, Great Lakes News Collaborative, Groundwater Contamination, Latest News, Michigan, News, PFAS, Region, Research, Data and Technology, Science, Technology & Research, Water Quality

Research finds more PFAS coming out of wastewater treatment plants than going in

by Michigan Public April 14, 2022
Posted inAbout Great Lakes Now, Drinking Water, Equity and Environmental Justice, Featured, Forever Chemicals Featured, Industry, Michigan, Minnesota, News, Pennsylvania, PFAS, PFAS News Roundup, Politics, Region, Water Quality, Who We Are and What We Do, Wisconsin

PFAS News Roundup: Pennsylvania sets regulations, judge says Wisconsin DNR can’t regulate, Chemours uses climate change to defend PFAS

by Natasha Blakely April 13, 2022
Posted inAbout Great Lakes Now, Drinking Water, Featured, Forever Chemicals Featured, Industry, Latest News, Michigan, News, PFAS, Politics, Region, Research, Data and Technology, Science, Technology & Research, U.S. and Canadian Federal Governments, Water Quality, Who We Are and What We Do

PFAS is a widespread problem. The solution needs to come from widespread sources

by Gary Wilson, Great Lakes Now April 12, 2022November 9, 2025
Posted inDrinking Water, Equity and Environmental Justice, Featured, Groundwater Contamination, Infrastructure, Latest News, Lead, Michigan, News, Politics, Region, The Catch, Water Quality

Benton Harbor’s lead pipes and the plan to replace them

by Great Lakes Now April 11, 2022
Posted inDrinking Water, Equity and Environmental Justice, Featured, Great Lakes News Collaborative, Groundwater Contamination, Latest News, Lead, Michigan, News, Politics, Region, Water Quality

State praised for vow to remove sources of lead from Benton Harbor homes

by Bridge Michigan April 11, 2022
Posted inDrinking Water, Great Lakes News Collaborative, Infrastructure, Latest News, Michigan, News, Politics, Region, Water Quality

Inflation Weighs On U.S. Water Utilities

by Circle of Blue April 7, 2022
Posted inAbout Great Lakes Now, Beaches, Boating, Paddle Sports and Sailing, Drinking Water, Featured, Lake Michigan, Latest News, Michigan, News, Quiz, Recreation and Tourism, Region, Tourism, Water Quality, Who We Are and What We Do

Surf and Slide: The Great Lakes Now Episode Quiz

by Natasha Blakely March 30, 2022
Posted inDrinking Water, Drinking Water News Roundup, Featured, Industry, Infrastructure, Latest News, Michigan, News, Politics, Region, Water Quality

Drinking Water News Roundup: Best tasting water in the world in Ohio, nation’s worst waterways in Indiana

by Maya Sundaresan March 29, 2022
Posted inAbout Great Lakes Now, Advocacy, Drinking Water, Equity and Environmental Justice, Featured, Flint, Illinois, Latest News, Michigan, News, Politics, Region, The States, Water Quality, Who We Are and What We Do

Substantive change will require a ‘massive culture shift’ in federal, state and local agencies

by Gary Wilson, Great Lakes Now March 18, 2022November 9, 2025

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    For three decades, Michigan State University researchers have gone to Manistee National Forest to study seedlings to find out about the future of Michigan’s forests.

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