This story originally appeared on Great Lakes Today and is republished here with permission. Part 2 in a series on environmental justice issues in the Great Lakes region. At a pediatric clinic […]
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Waste dumps a burden for minority neighborhoods
This story originally appeared on Great Lakes Today and is republished here with permission. Part 1 in a series on environmental justice issues in the Great Lakes region. Would you want […]
Posted inAlgae Blooms, Beaches, Boating, Paddle Sports and Sailing, News, Protect, Recreation and Tourism, Video, Water Quality
The Microplastics Mystery in the Great Lakes
From GLB Chief MEG: Earlier this week, our Chicago Correspondent Gary Wilson took a closer look at new national regulations banning microplastics and their impact on the Great Lakes. Today, […]
Posted inAlgae Blooms, Beaches, Boating, Paddle Sports and Sailing, News, Protect, Recreation and Tourism, Water Quality
Plastic plagues the Great Lakes
“22 million pounds of plastic flow to the Great Lakes each year”
Chicago’s early January temperatures don’t make for beach-going, but beaches free of plastic litter were recently top of mind for Illinois Great Lakes advocates.
Posted inEnbridge Line 5 and Other Pipelines, Industry, News, Protect, Video
Two Sides of the Line 5 Pipeline in the Great Lakes
The end of November and the month of December brought many new developments for the Line 5 Pipeline which runs between Michigan’s Lower and Upper Peninsula in the Straits of Mackinac.
Posted inDrinking Water, Latest News, News, Protect, Water Quality
“Systemic” air pollution problems linger in certain Chicago neighborhoods
Activists say “whack-a-mole” actions are inadequate The City of Chicago last month took another step on a long path to protect citizens from “fugitive dust” that can blow into neighborhoods […]
Posted inDrinking Water, Enbridge Line 5 and Other Pipelines, Industry, News, Protect, Video, Water Quality
Are Great Lakes Emergency Responders ready for an oil spill in the Straits of Mackinac?
At the 28th Annual “No Spills” Conference January 3 through the 5th, emergency responders throughout the Great Lakes Region gathered to discuss ways to protect the Great Lakes from spills of all kinds and discussed new ways to respond in the event of a hazardous material spill that would affect the Great Lakes and its tributaries.
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Painting the Great Lakes
An interview with artist Alexis Rockman If your ideas of Great Lakes paintings are beautiful sunsets, seagulls, sailboats and sand dunes, this exhibition which begins at the Grand Rapids Art […]
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Chasing Fugitive Dust in Detroit
The Motor City finds ‘political will’ for cleaner air.
The story starts in 2013, when residents living in Windsor, Ontario in Canada noticed big black piles of some kind of material along the Detroit shoreline south of downtown.
A truck arrives with more petcoke on Detroit’s waterfront in 2013. Photo courtesy Stephen Boyle, FuzzyTek Images
It turned out to be petroleum coke, or petcoke, a byproduct Canadian tar sands oil processed at the Marathon refinery in Southwest Detroit.
Posted inBudget, Politics
New Great Lakes EPA head faces big stage and skeptics
Can Cathy Stepp establish trust and sell a “Chamber of Commerce mentality” in Chicago? Newly-appointed U.S. EPA Administrator for the Great Lakes region, Cathy Stepp, may be headed for a […]
