Read what the West Michigan shoe company told Great Lakes Now in PFAS-related response. During production of “The Forever Chemicals,” a Great Lakes Now special about a PFAS, we invited […]
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Paying for PFAS: Great Lakes states grapple with costs of clean up
For some Great Lakes governors, the emerging issue of a family of chemicals known as PFAS – per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — is coming at a time when they are making arguments to raise taxes to fund other statewide needs.
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Summer Cruising
The cruise ship industry has been steadily growing in the Great Lakes region over the past decade and a half. From just a couple of ships making sporadic trips in 2002, there are now five separate cruise lines operating seven ships, with even more fleet expansions expected in 2020.
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Ask the Great Lakes Now Team Your PFAS Question
PFAS*: the acronym for industrial chemicals that are contaminating Michigan water and showing up in people’s blood. Have you heard of them? Do you have a question about them and how they relate to your health, safety or water supply?
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What is PFAS?
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?”