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Fisheries Update: New Canadian law improves habitat protections and adds Indigenous consultation

The new version of the law restores protections that were removed by the previous government in 2012.

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Green Spotlight: New York Gov. Cuomo leads with climate change, restoring nature in annual priorities speech

The governors of five of the eight Great Lakes states have given their yearly State of the State addresses, but only one of them highlighted climate change.

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PFAS News Roundup: Litigation, testing, fish advisories, microwave popcorn and new firefighting foam labels

Catch the latest updates on what’s happening with PFAS – a group of man-made chemicals flagged as a major contaminant in sources of water across the country – in the Great Lakes region and on a national level in Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.