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In Chicago, adapting electric buses to winter’s challenges
Capital City Transit has ordered seven electric buses to replace diesel models from 2010, said the operations superintendent.
Energy News Roundup: Community programs to provide solar for low-income residents in Illinois, Ohio
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Restore, Release: The Great Lakes Now Episode Quiz
Test your knowledge on the Spectacle Reef lighthouse, Pullman neighborhood and lake sturgeon.
Q&A: New EPA Great Lakes administrator talks Benton Harbor, infrastructure, AOC cleanup
Sites like the Detroit River will benefit from the billion-dollar windfall, says new Region 5 administrator Debra Shore. Shore also defends Michigan’s actions in Benton Harbor.
Energy News Roundup: Power outages in Michigan, future of nuclear power in Illinois
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In Chicago, adapting electric buses to winter’s challenges
Capital City Transit has ordered seven electric buses to replace diesel models from 2010, said the operations superintendent.
Energy News Roundup: Community programs to provide solar for low-income residents in Illinois, Ohio
Catch the latest in Great Lakes energy news in Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.
Divided Congress: Smooth sailing or choppy waters for Great Lakes programs?
Great Lakes funding has been bipartisan, but the EPA will face more oversight and the region may have less influence in D.C.
Buffalo legislator calls for bill of rights protection for the Great Lakes
Unique legislation would provide “personhood” rights but legal barriers to adoption are significant. Public Trust doctrine as an alternative.
Extinctions, shrinking habitat spur ‘rewilding’ in cities
Animal and plant species are dying off at an alarming rate. Their plight is stirring calls for “rewilding” places where they thrived until driven out by development, pollution and climate change.
Energy News Roundup: Electric school buses, solar-powered recreational boats on the rise
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Great Lakes Moving Bridges: How they work and why we love them
Moving bridges historically played crucial roles in the development of dozens of Great Lakes cities. And folks are often mesmerized by their sheer size and the fact they really do move.
Energy News Roundup: Michigan launching study of nuclear power options, clean energy jobs rebounding in Wisconsin
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Mapping the Great Lakes: Where do you live?
Thirty million people live within the Great Lakes Watershed, which make up roughly 10% of the US population and 30% of the Canadian population.
Great Lakes, Chicago River and Asian carp in the spotlight in Elizabeth Kolbert’s “Under a White Sky”
“Dealing with the impacts of our own actions.”
More from “Poisonous Ponds: Tackling Toxic Coal Ash”
Keep up with more coal ash news from the “Poisonous Ponds: Tackling Toxic Coal Ash” project.