It’s a curious acronym — PFAS — and it stands for a family of chemicals that’s in most homes and being detected in an increasing number of people’s water systems […]
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PFAS in the Headlines
How this family of industrial chemicals has contaminated water supplies is a worldwide story. Great Lakes Now collected headlines from dozens of newspapers, television stations and public radio outlets to […]
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Great Lakes States, U.S. EPA grapple with “Forever Chemicals”
As states in the Great Lakes region come to grips with how to deal with the emerging family of contaminants known as PFAS, one thing is clear: there is a […]
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PFAS pollution already costing Michigan communities millions
Michigan residents may be in line to pay for the fixes to PFAS contamination for years to come.
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Anglers on Ice
Call it hard water fishing or ice fishing. Either way it’s cold, although it could be warm. All depends on how you do it. But for certain, every year hundreds of thousands of Great Lakes residents and visitors spend time hanging out on top of the ice, working to finagle fish from beneath it.
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Ann Arbor spends $1 million to deal with PFAS contamination
The city started to ask in 2017: “What can we do about it?”
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In West Michigan, sticker shock over toxic water costs
Plainfield Township officials estimate that $62 million is needed to bring municipal water to areas contaminated by PFAS chemicals.
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Michigan residents take action on clean water where military won’t
Grayling Township may build a new municipal water system to serve homes contaminated by PFAS from the military base.
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Book Club: New book about Asian carp chronicles history, future
With “Overrun: Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis,” Reeves weaves politics, history, agriculture, fish biology and several other disciplinary perspectives into the story of the invasive fish.
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Will new governor end Illinois’ inertia over Asian carp solution?
In a letter to the Army Corps of Engineers, Pritzker said he “generally supports implementation” of the Corps’ $778 million plan to stop the carp advance at the Brandon Road Lock, a potential choke point some 50 miles from Chicago and Lake Michigan.
