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Climate ChangeCollaborationGreat Lakes News CollaborativeHistory and CultureLatest NewsMichiganNewsRecreation and TourismScience, Technology, ResearchTourismMichigan’s lost winter cancels sturgeon season, ski, dog sled races
-Cancellations mount as Michigan experiences one of the warmest winters in memory. Experts blame El Niño and climate change.
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AuthorsChicagoFeature HomepageGary WilsonGLNCGreat Lakes News CollaborativeGreat Lakes News CollaborativeIllinoisLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsStudy calls for EPA to include human well-being in Great Lakes restoration program
-Historically restoration work focused on measurable ecological outcomes. Researchers make the case to codify human well-being into the process.
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AuthorsDetroitDetroit RiverFeature DetroitFeature HomepageGreat Lakes News CollaborativeJohn HartigLatest NewsMichiganNewsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsGreat Lakes Moment: Lest we forget – A history of Detroit River oil pollution
-Today, the Detroit River is much cleaner, and sentinel wildlife species have returned. It is good to look back at the 1960s pollution of the river, notably oil pollution, and recognize how far we have come.
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APFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsLake SuperiorLatest NewsMichiganNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWarm weather forces park officials to suspend Isle Royale wolf count for first time in decades
-A stretch of unusually warm weather has forced federal officials to suspend researchers’ annual wolf-moose count in Isle Royale National Park for the first time in more than six decades.
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CollaborationEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesGreat Lakes News CollaborativeIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsNewsOntarioOntario sides with Enbridge Gas in fight to connect new homes to natural gas
-Saying fossil fuel use will decline, the Ontario Energy Board told Enbridge Gas to charge developers, not homeowners, for new natural gas hookups.
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I-500 Snowmobile Race moving ahead despite warmer weather
-The race takes place on a one-mile track of ice, so snow isn’t critical. But even though the race doesn’t need a lot of snow, the region’s trails do.
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ClevelandFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsIllinoisLatest NewsMichiganNewsOhioScience, Technology, ResearchPoints North: Doe, A Deer, A (Sterilized) Female Deer
-Deer culling is common across the Midwest. Cities often hire sharpshooters or allow hunters to kill a certain number of deer.
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Flint residents reach $25M settlement with engineers in water crisis case
-Engineering company Veolia North America settles class-action lawsuit before a trial was set to begin. The company consulted the city of Flint after its disastrous 2014 water switch.
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Chicago could be first major Midwestern city to ban gas in new construction
-Buildings are Chicago’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, but efforts to decarbonize them are facing union opposition.
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DetroitEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature DetroitFeature HomepageIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeParts of Detroit could be radically transformed by city solar plan, for better or worse
-Residents are divided over whether financial benefits outweigh risks.
