“Officials with Canadian oil transport corporation Enbridge on Thursday denied reports that the company’s twin, underwater, 64-year-old oil and natural gas pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac are losing their protective […]
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Michigan’s Governor and Flint’s Mayor at odds over water bill credits for citizens
Collaboration between state of Michigan and the city of Flint on the water crisis continues but there are still some major rifts more than two years after Flint’s water […]
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A Plan to Build a Road in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Pits Marquette County Officials Against the E.P.A.
A battle involving the needs of mining and timber companies in the Upper Peninsula versus concerns about the future of wetlands, rivers and wilderness is on its way to the […]
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Does waning Great Lakes influence loom for Chicago?
The heady days of Chicago holding outsized influence over Great Lakes issues could be waning. Chicago has been riding a wave of Great Lakes clout. It’s home to executives, agencies […]
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The Flint water crisis makes music
“It blew my mind”. That’s how Dr. Andrea Ramsey, Assistant Professor of Conducting at University of Colorado at Boulder, tells Great Lakes Now she reacted to the water crisis in […]
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Will Trump follow Wisconsin Gov. Walker’s environmental model?
Looking for a clue to how President Donald Trump may approach environmental issues? Look to Wisconsin. Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker may have unwittingly provided a template for Trump when […]
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Meteorite Lights up The Sky and Lands in Lake Michigan
If you live near any of the Great Lakes, you might have seen it. It happened not long after midnight on Monday, February 6th: a huge fireball streaked across the […]
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Detroit River’s muddy bottom conceals cannons, cars, guns
“Below the murky, rolling currents of the Detroit River is a floor loaded with centuries of artifacts: war cannons, old wooden ships, cars and hundreds of firearms, ranging from wooden muskets […]
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“No Nuclear Waste in the Great Lakes Backyard”: Lawmakers Send a Special Plea to Canada’s New Minister of Foreign Affairs
Dozens of Republican and Democratic Lawmakers from the Great Lakes states sent a letter to Canada’s newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs (on February 1, 2017) to make clear their […]
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Legal hurdles face Flint residents in EPA suit
A year after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency used its emergency authority to intervene in Flint, a group of residents has filed a lawsuit against the agency claiming it was […]
