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AuthorsBudgetChicagoDrinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeGary WilsonIllinoisIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectRegion
‘Water is a Basic Right’: New Chicago mayor’s transition team addresses water issues, Great Lakes and recommends proactivity
Chicago’s new mayor started just this week, and one of the issues on her radar is access to water for all citizens.
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ArticleBeaches, Boating, Paddle Sports and SailingDetroitEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature DetroitIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentNatasha BlakelyNewsRegionSeries EpisodeShipping and Ports
Letters, Packages, Pizzas: The duties of the mail boat have changed with the evolution of delivery
- by Natasha BlakelyThe J.W. Westcott Co. has a long-established reputation as a mail boat, delivering letters and messages to freighters passing through the Detroit River, but that no longer encompasses what the boat does.
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AdvocacyAuthorsEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingEquity and Environmental JusticeIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentJames ProffittLake ErieNewsPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectWaterfront Development
Lake Erie Activist Addresses United Nations on Earth Day
Lake Erie Bill of Rights campaigners Toledoans for Safe Water were invited to the United Nations in New York City on Earth Day to talk about the campaign.
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AdvocacyAuthorsEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingEquity and Environmental JusticeNewsPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectSandra SvobodaShipping and PortsU.S. and Canadian Federal Governments
Award-Winning Documentary: Great Lakes Now film earns journalism honor
- by Sandra SvobodaGreat Lakes Now’s documentary about the history of and current political debates about Enbridge Line 5 in the Mackinac Straits garnered a top award from the Society of Professional Journalists metro Detroit chapter on Thursday.
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AdvocacyAuthorsEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingEquity and Environmental JusticeIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentJames ProffittLake ErieNewsPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental Justice
Finding the Funds: How the Lake Erie Bill of Rights campaigns were financed
Records show funding for Toledo Coalition for Jobs and Growth came almost exclusively from Houston, Texas-based BP North America, including a $302,000 wire transfer made just two weeks before the election.
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AuthorsEquity and Environmental JusticeGary WilsonMilwaukeeMunicipalitiesNewsPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWater Withdrawals
Milwaukee sewage exec has an “audacious” goal to protect Lake Michigan
Milwaukee’s Kevin Shafer has an ambitious goal for the agency charged with keeping sewage out of Lake Michigan. He wants zero sewage overflows to the lake by 2035, a goal that has national colleagues and a Milwaukee environmental group questioning if he understands the inevitability of overflows.
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AuthorsBudgetEquity and Environmental JusticeGary WilsonIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentNewsPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsWater Quality and Restoration Efforts
New Trump budget again proposes drastic cuts for the U.S. EPA, Great Lakes
Titled “A Budget for a Better America,” the Trump administration’s 2020 budget released on Monday makes another attempt to subject the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to draconian funding cuts and proposes to all but eliminate the Obama-era Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
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AdvocacyAuthorsBudgetDrinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeGary WilsonIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentNewsPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeRegionWaterfront Development
Some Great Lakes governors make water quality a top priority in first budgets and actions
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday told legislators who have to approve her budget that she wants Michigan to take a new path where “every community has clean safe drinking water.”
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AdvocacyAgricultureAuthorsBudgetDrinking WaterEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingEquity and Environmental JusticeJames ProffittLake ErieNewsPolicySandra Svoboda
The Lake Erie Bill of Rights
- by GLN EditorIn advance of this week’s vote on a measure that would grant Lake Erie certain legal status, Great Lakes Now is bringing a variety of perspectives about the issue with these extended conversations.
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AdvocacyAgricultureAuthorsEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingEquity and Environmental JusticeIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake ErieNewsOhioPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeSandra SvobodaWaterfront Development
The Global Movement in Local Courts
- by Sandra SvobodaIf Toledo voters approve the Lake Erie Bill of Rights proposal on their Feb. 26 ballots, how it will change environmental law and policy won’t be immediately be known.
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