This year’s theme is “Invest in our Planet,” and there are plenty of events all around the region where people can do just that.
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Benton Harbor’s lead pipes and the plan to replace them
Reporter Leonard Fleming at The Detroit News has been covering the story, and he joins Great Lakes Now for this segment to further explain the issues and impact in the west Michigan city.
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State praised for vow to remove sources of lead from Benton Harbor homes
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced on April 7 a goal to remove lead from every affected home in the city.
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Inflation Weighs On U.S. Water Utilities
Water leaders worry that rising prices — for everything from lead pipe replacements to treatment plant repairs — will cause a historic federal infrastructure investment to fall short of lofty expectations.
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Lakeside Gentrification: Waterfront properties and water access grow steadily further out of reach
The bottom-line budget for a vacation by the lakes is shooting higher, as local vacation homes and restaurants are replaced by mansions and condominiums.
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‘We’ve got to get gaming out of our blood’: Pandemic shock pushes Wisconsin tribes to diversify economy
Wisconsin tribes contemplate future beyond gaming after pandemic shows risk of overreliance on casinos.
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Easier Ride for Fossils, But $9.1B in Climate Funding as Ottawa Releases 2030 Plan
The fossil and transportation sectors get a relatively free ride and electricity producers do the most to decarbonize in the much-anticipated 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan that was recently released.
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FRESH: U.S. Lawmakers Propose Great Lakes Federal Agency
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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Illinois environmental justice bill would help residents prevent pollution
Grassroots leaders of successful fights against coal plants and petcoke are taking the lead: “Communities must have a way to be involved in a permitting process that is really broken,” one said.
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Minnesota bill aims to close a gap on funding for ‘pre-weatherization’ work
A suburban state lawmaker’s bill would supplement federal weatherization funding over the next three years, nearly doubling the money available and providing crucial flexibility to cover “pre-weatherization” work.
