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Infrastructure and More: Researchers and university leaders report on Michigan’s needs and opportunities

by GLN Editor

Detroit Public TV will stream the Infrastructure Innovation Tour’s final stop. Learn more about what research is being done to help Michigan with water quality, the maritime industry, mobility, energy and communications.

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IJNR Snapshots: Septic systems pose an environmental and economic dilemma for rural residents

by Natasha Blakely

With the need for a new sewer system to protect the lake and the expense of such a system, some Tippecanoe Lake residents are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

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IJNR Snapshots: Some Ohio farmland is being returned to its glory days as the Great Black Swamp

by Natasha Blakely

The Black Swamp Conservancy has been attempting to bring back some of Ohio’s wetlands, buying up farmland to convert into nature reserves. GLN News Director Natasha Blakely learned more while on a fellowship with the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources. Read her reports.

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IJNR Snapshots: The human and environmental costs of emergency management in Detroit and Flint

by Natasha Blakely

When residents in Detroit and Flint started to suffer consequences from choices made under emergency management, their attempts to address those concerns were often ignored. GLN News Director Natasha Blakely learned more while on a fellowship with the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources. Read her reports.

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IJNR Snapshots: Cost, timing, weather and lack of regulation make nutrient management hard for farmers around Lake Erie

by Natasha Blakely

In the absence of regulation, there’s a continued push for voluntary nutrient management among farmers in Ohio. GLN News Director Natasha Blakely learned more while on a fellowship with the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources. Read her reports.

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Road Trip: Michigan lawmakers head to Illinois to talk carp prevention

by Gary Wilson, Great Lakes Now

The Army Corps briefs the congressional delegation on its plan to deter the Asian carp invasion. “All the pieces are in place,” says Sen. Stabenow.

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Great Lakes Moment: The event that transformed Cleveland’s Flats and influenced national policy

by John Hartig, Great Lakes Now

It’s been five decades since the most famous of the fires on Cleveland’s River. Since then, the cleanup of the Cuyahoga River has also led to the transformation of the Cleveland Flats from an industrial wasteland into a community where nature, commerce, and industry live together.

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Restoring Howards Bay: Legacy lead and other contaminants are targets of dredging and capping

by Melissa Walsh

Where Wisconsin and Minnesota share a Lake Superior harbor, a $13.8 million clean-up project at this Area of Concern will launch in 2020, removing lead and other contaminants, some a century old, that persist in the waterway.

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Agency Overhaul: Great Lakes agenda to be foundation for reorganized state office

by Gary Wilson, Great Lakes Now

Is the recent renaming of Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality an attempt to shed the shame or baggage of the Flint Water Crisis? Does it signal a significant change of course from the previous administration? Here’s what the administrator of the newly named office of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy told Great Lakes Now.