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Great Lakes News CollaborativeIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake MichiganLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectScience, Technology, ResearchRoad salt threatens Michigan lakes and rivers. Can an alternative take hold?
-Road salt is threatening the Great Lakes’ famous fresh waters and creating even bigger problems for the inland rivers, lakes and aquifers – not to mention your car’s undercarriage.
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Feature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsHabitat RestorationJohn HartigLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeGreat Lakes Moment: Kirtland’s warblers are thriving in Michigan
-The Kirtland’s warbler went from less than 200 males in the ‘70s to more than 2,200 in 2021. In this month’s column, John Hartig looks at their recovery.
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Year in Review 2021: The two-beer bear and other Lake Huron canine adventures
-Great Lakes travel in 2021 meant road trips, island encounters and a lot of fetch on the beach with my dog, Cal.
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Minnesota regulators reaffirm air permit for proposed mine
-State regulators who three years ago issued an air quality permit for a proposed copper-nickel mine in northwestern Minnesota stood by their decision in a report released Monday that said the mine did not provide misleading information on its plans.
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Algae BloomsFeature HomepageGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLake ErieLatest NewsNewsOhioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectWater Quality and Restoration EffortsEnvironmental group says Gov. Whitmer’s plan to reduce harmful algal blooms ‘won’t work’
-An environmental group says a Michigan plan to reduce nutrient pollution of Lake Erie is “lackluster” and “won’t work.”
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AdvocacyAPIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentMinnesotaNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectMinnesota Supreme Court to review drainage projects ruling
-The Minnesota Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will review a ruling by the Minnesota Court of Appeals that provided environmental protections for Renville County’s last free-flowing stream.
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APBuffaloFeature HomepageNew YorkNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsEPA to test, measure longtime Buffalo River cleanup efforts
-The lengthy effort to clean up the Buffalo River could pay off in the next few years.
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Year in Review 2021: As the year ends, I’m still thinking about summer joy… and summer flooding
-New Associate Producer Anna Sysling contemplates self-care, the small wonders of Great Lakes nature and the devastating impacts of climate on the region.
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AgricultureCollaborationIllinoisIndigenous CommunitiesIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake MichiganLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeGreat Lakes region WWII armory preserves Indigenous village
-Researchers are studying a long-vanished village near southern Lake Michigan that a World War II arsenal helped preserve.
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Drinking WaterIndianaLatest NewsNewsPennsylvaniaPFASPFAS News RoundupPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWisconsinPFAS News Roundup: PFAS can move from water to air, DoD efforts to clean up PFAS skewered
-Catch the latest updates on what’s happening with PFAS in Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.
