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Filtering Microplastics from Your Machines: Ontario town to test potential solution for keeping microplastics out of the Great Lakes
-Next month, 100 households in Parry Sound, Ontario will install special filters on their washing machines designed to remove plastic microfibers from the machines’ waste water.
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Superfund Sites: New Detroit River site added for threats of PCB, metal, cyanide contamination
-The former McLouth Steel Corporation site in Trenton, Michigan, was added to the Superfund list in May because of its risk to the Detroit River.
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Sustainable Brands Day 4: It ended with a dance performance
-On the final day of the Sustainable Brands 2019 conference, discussions on policy, water challenges and advocacy continued.
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Watch Now: “The Forever Chemicals” documentary panel discussion
-Great Lakes Now Program Manager Sandra Svoboda, and MLive environmental reporter, Garret Ellison host a panel discussion on PFAS.
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Algae Map: Nonprofit group creates map tracking algae bloom outbreaks from 2010 to now
-Environmental Working Group released a map tracking all reported toxic algae bloom outbreaks.
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Ask Your Question About the Great Lakes
-Do you have a question about the Great Lakes or life in the region? Ask the Great Lakes Now team.
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GLN Answers: How Do I Know If My Drinking Water Is Safe? and Other Audience Questions
-After we aired “The…
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Milwaukee sewage exec has an “audacious” goal to protect Lake Michigan
-Milwaukee’s Kevin Shafer has an ambitious goal for the agency charged with keeping sewage out of Lake Michigan. He wants zero sewage overflows to the lake by 2035, a goal that has national colleagues and a Milwaukee environmental group questioning if he understands the inevitability of overflows.
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Earth Day 2019: The Seven Generation River Premieres on the World Channel
-The Seven Generation River, a half-hour documentary from Detroit Public Television’s Great Lakes Bureau and Vision Maker Media explores the political, social and environmental issues surrounding our most precious natural resource – water.
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Wolverine’s Statement
-A 2010 photo of demolition at the former Wolverine Worldwide tannery in Rockford, Mich. The U.S.…
