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Mandated East Palestine creek cleanup is entering final phase, environmental officials say
-Cleanup efforts are still underway in East Palestine nearly a year after a train derailed. Officials say progress is being made at restoring water quality and aquatic life.
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Feature HomepageInfrastructureLake MichiganLatest NewsMichiganNewsRecreation and TourismResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchTourismWater Quality and Restoration Efforts
You can’t stop the lake
-Pollution plays a role in preventing shoreline erosion for lakeside properties.
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Defense Department to again target ‘forever chemicals’ contamination near Michigan military base
-The U.S. Department of Defense plans to install two more groundwater treatment systems at a former Michigan military base to control contamination from forever chemicals.
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Army Corps plans $1 billion barricade to deter invasive carp at Illinois and Des Plaines Rivers
-Invasive carp could threaten the $7 billion recreation and commercial fishing industry around the Great Lakes.
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Feature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsLake SuperiorLatest NewsMichiganNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration Efforts
The Toxic Sands Threatening Fish in Lake Superior
-The slow-motion destruction of Buffalo Reef, a critical spawning ground, offers lessons for new mining projects.
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Climate ChangeFeature HomepageHabitat RestorationIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentInfrastructureLatest NewsMichiganNewsScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration Efforts
Elk Rapids wants to help its shoreline through new state Climate Corps program
-Michigan is working with communities and organizations to tackle climate change by funding new staff positions.
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Asian CarpFeature HomepageIllinoisInvasive SpeciesLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration Efforts
Great Lakes policy advocate calls out Illinois for intransigence on invasive carp solution
-“Illinois is running out of excuses and right now it is single handedly delaying the project,” says the Alliance for the Great Lakes’ Molly Flanagan in a Great Lakes Now interview.