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Report says growing demand from data centers, industry could stress Great Lakes water
-The Alliance for the Great Lakes report urges states to take steps to protect water resources.
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Energy News RoundupEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsNewsTrump administration orders 63-year-old Michigan coal plant to stay open — again
-More energy news as General Motors partially shuts down an EV factory and young people in Wisconsin sue over climate change.
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In Peshawbestown, the Grand Traverse Band puts fish waste to use
-The Grand Traverse Band is turning the waste into a compost and fertilizer, cutting down on landfill waste and helping with food sovereignty efforts.
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Blue-green algae is making a home in the warming waters of Lake Superior’s watershed
-Long a threat to southern Ontario lakes, climate change is allowing cyanobacteria — or blue-green algae — to thrive in even the coldest of the Great Lakes.
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Points North: The Pink Prairie Mascot
-In 2014, a group of botanists discovered that a very rare plant native to the Kankakee River in Illinois, had vanished from its only known native habitat in the world. That set off a quest to bring back the missing Midwestern flower.
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker signs PFAS Reduction Act
-More PFAS news with millions of Americans drinking contaminated water, and concerns in Wisconsin over a drilling operation.
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How many cigarette butts are littering your local beach?
-Cigarette butts are one of the most common kind of plastic pollution found on Great Lakes beaches.
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Casting Lines and Listening In
-Researchers eavesdrop on forests, fishing for lake trout and the rights of nature.
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Nibi Chronicles: Your hands will know what to do
-After working at the Grand Portage National Monument, Sofia Vanderlan built a birch bark canoe in honor of her ancestors’ Great Lakes tradition and heritage.
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Cleveland, NOACA seek public input on climate action plan
-The Comprehensive Climate Action Plan proposes strategies like offshore wind and nuclear energy be implemented in Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain and Medina counties.
