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BudgetFeature HomepageIllinoisIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentInfrastructureLatest NewsMinnesotaNewsOhioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWisconsin
Midwest States Struggle to Fund Dam Safety Projects, Even as Federal Aid Hits Historic Highs
-Many dams in the Midwest do not meet grant eligibility requirements, leaving safety officials and residents worried about how they’ll prevent future collapses as flood risks increase.
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Joliet, Illinois, Plans to Source Its Future Drinking Water From Lake Michigan. Will Other Cities Follow?
-As aquifers dry up, some Midwest communities are looking to the region’s greatest natural resources for a solution.
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National ballast water standards only apply to new vessels on the Great Lakes
-Existing Great Lakes vessels are exempt from installing treatment systems to control the spread of invasive species.
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Chicago’s beach season is over … or is it? Lake Michigan temps are breaking records.
-Lake Michigan’s surface temperature has been above average nearly every day this year so far. All five Great Lakes are heating up.
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Points North: The Last to Leave
-A researcher in Ohio was surrounded by hundreds of dead ash trees. They had been wiped out by the emerald ash borer. But in that same forest, she found a lone tree thriving. Could this be the key to saving ash from extinction?
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Traverse City lawyer gets national recognition for making economic arguments against coal
-Chris Bzdok has argued to state regulators that utility customers shouldn’t have to pay for coal infrastructure, because the investment isn’t worth it in the long run.