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AgricultureCollaborationDrinking WaterGreat Lakes News CollaborativeIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsNewsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsU.S. Movement to Limit CAFO Pollution Emboldened by Michigan Court Ruling
-State Supreme Court strengthens authority to prevent mammoth tide of manure from contaminating water.
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AuthorsGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLatest NewsNewsPFASPFAS News RoundupWater Quality and Restoration EffortsPFAS Roundup: Wisconsin PFAS remediation funds still frozen due to partisan divide
-Catch the latest updates on what’s happening with PFAS in the Great Lakes region.
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Great Lakes Beach Closings Are No Protection From Harmful Pollutants
-Updated water testing technology needed to make Great Lakes safer.
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Algae BloomsCollaborationDrinking WaterGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLake ErieLake Erie-EPALatest NewsMichiganNewsOhioThe CheckupWater Quality and Restoration EffortsToxic blooms on Lake Erie still a problem 10 years after Toledo issued a ‘do not drink’ order
-It’s been ten years since Toledo issued a ‘don not drink’ order for its water system for three days due to cyanobacterial blooms near its water intake in Lake Erie. The blooms are not any worse, but they are not any less.
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AuthorsFeature HomepageGreat Lakes News CollaborativeLatest NewsNewsPFASPFAS News RoundupWater Quality and Restoration EffortsPFAS Roundup: Government of Canada introduces potential plan for product-related PFAS regulation
-Catch the latest updates on what’s happening with PFAS in the Great Lakes region.
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CollaborationFish, Birds and AnimalsGreat Lakes News CollaborativeInvasive SpeciesLatest NewsNewsPennsylvaniaScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsHarnessing Mussels to Filter Fresh Water
-A biological cure for contaminants is being studied.
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CollaborationFeature HomepageGreat Lakes News CollaborativeIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake HuronLake OntarioLatest NewsNewsOntarioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeThe ProvincesTorontoU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsMissed calls, forgotten instructions: Inside an oil spill cleanup on Toronto waterways
-A provincial spill report details a list of issues that arose as crews responded to an oil spill in two Toronto creeks that eventually made its way to Lake Ontario.
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Algae BloomsAuthorsFeature HomepageJames ProffittLake ErieLatest NewsNewsOhioWater Quality and Restoration EffortsA Decade After Crisis, Algal Blooms Persist
-Efforts to cut nutrients in Lake Erie remain ineffective.
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CollaborationGreat Lakes News CollaborativeIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake OntarioLatest NewsNewsOntarioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeTorontoU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsWater Quality and Restoration Efforts‘Containment breached’: How an oil spill in northwest Toronto made its way to Lake Ontario
-Last summer, contaminated sludge from a fire at a chemical plant reached Lake Ontario. The spill report raises questions about what the province told the public.
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Former state toxicologist says nitrate drinking water standards are too lax
-A former Wisconsin state toxicologist who was involved in creating nitrate standards for drinking water alleges the science that has informed those standards for decades is flawed.
