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BudgetClimate ChangeFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsHabitat RestorationIllinoisIndianaLatest NewsMichiganMinnesotaNew YorkNewsOhioPennsylvaniaRachel DuckettWisconsinBridge Over Warming Water: Grants fund fish habitat conservation projects around the Great Lakes
-Rivers, streams and lakes are warming, casting a dark shadow on the future of coldwater fish in the Great Lakes region. To save them, state and federal agencies around the Great Lakes are investing millions in these fish.
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Congresswomen urge Biden to stop pipeline in Minnesota visit
-A group of Democratic representatives called on Biden to revoke a federal water quality permit and stop the project, as the president did with the Keystone XL pipeline the day he took office.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeDrinking WaterEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesIndigenous CommunitiesLatest NewsMinnesotaResearch, Data and TechnologyWater Quality and Restoration EffortsAmid Extreme Heat and Drought, Line 3 Pipeline Construction Puts Water At Risk
-State agencies insist — though scientists and indigenous leaders furiously disagree — that waterways won’t be affected.
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Line 3 opponents descend on Minnesota Capitol to seek a stop
-The rally, part of a series of events called Treaties over Tar Sands organized by Indigenous and environmental activists, called on Gov. Tim Walz and President Joe Biden to pull permits and shut down the Line 3 replacement pipeline project.
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Minnesota Supreme Court delivers blow to Line 3 opponents
-The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal by opponents of Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 oil pipeline, letting stand a key decision by independent regulators to allow construction on the project to proceed.
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Scientists look for clues to Lake Superior algae blooms
-More than 10 years ago, the discovery of cyanobacteria along Park Point in Duluth — in notoriously cold and stormy Lake Superior — would have been unheard of.
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Minnesota wildfires disappoint travelers and outfitters
-Several fires inside and just outside the country’s most visited wilderness area led officials to close it last weekend, dealing a blow to those who spent months planning their trips there and to the outfitters and other businesses that depend on them.
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Forest Service says lightning caused Minnesota wildfire
-A wildfire in the Superior National Forest of northeastern Minnesota that crews have been fighting since the weekend has grown to 6 1/4 square miles.
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APDrinking WaterForever Chemicals FeaturedInfrastructureMinnesotaNewsPFASWater Quality and Restoration EffortsMinnesota issues plan to treat water marred by 3M chemicals
-Minnesota pollution control and natural resources officials released a $700 million plan to improve the drinking water for 14 communities whose groundwater was contaminated due to chemical disposal by 3M.
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ClevelandDetroitDrinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature ClevelandFeature DetroitFeature HomepageFlintForever Chemicals FeaturedIllinoisIndianaIndigenous CommunitiesLatest NewsMichiganMinnesotaNew YorkNewsOhioOntarioPFASRachel DuckettWater Quality and Restoration EffortsDrinking Water Roundup: Senate passes $1 trillion infrastructure bill, Canada reaches $8 billion settlement with First Nations
-Catch the latest updates on what’s happening with PFAS in Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.
