Join GLN Producer Anna Sysling for a conversation with several guests who all played a part in this episode’s story about the complicated financial, public health and infrastructural implications of our drinking water.
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Northern Indiana residents doubt outcome of coal ash cleanup
Some northern Indiana residents remain skeptical that communities in the area will be free of contamination from toxic coal ash, despite a renewed commitment to clean up polluted sites and transition to renewable energy sources.
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Cleaner Earth: Healing ozone hole, less smog, more eagles
For Earth Day, The Associated Press asked more than 25 environmental scientists and policy experts to share their top stories about environmental problems that the world fixed.
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FRESH: Wisconsin Judge Strikes Down Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Cleanup Rule
Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today.
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Gov. Whitmer wants federal aid to keep nuclear plant open
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wrote to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to say the state will support a “compelling” application to the program and she intends to do everything she can to keep the plant open.
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Energy News Roundup: Ontario looks to phase out natural gas, wild rice could stop Line 3, Energy Department invests in cybersecurity
Catch the latest in Great Lakes energy news in Great Lakes Now’s fortnightly headline roundup.
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Minnesota Supreme Court to hear challenge in PolyMet case
The Minnesota Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a challenge by environmentalists over portions of a lower court ruling involving a key permit for the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine.
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Energy shift creates opening for ‘world’s largest batteries’
The hydropower industry considers pumped storage the best answer to a question hovering over the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy to address climate change: where to get power when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing.
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The Great Lakes sugaring season is changing
Maple producers are facing shorter harvest seasons, less sugar production and unreliable sap flow.
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Mushrooms and Mobsters – Episode 2204
A giant fungus in a tiny Great Lakes town, gangsters vacation “Up North,” and “The Catch.”