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Algae BloomsAPClevelandDrinking WaterLake ErieLatest NewsNewsOhioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsClean Water Act at 50: environmental gains, challenges unmet
-Experts and activists agree many waterways are healthier now.
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APBudgetEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentInfrastructureNewsPennsylvaniaPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsInfrastructure plan: $33M to clean up hundreds of oil wells
-There are an estimated 15,000 abandoned wells on federal land — and states have indicated that they would need more than $8 billion to clean up 130,000 other orphaned wells.”
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APClimate ChangeForests and PlantsNewsPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectScience, Technology, ResearchU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsBiden forest plan stirs dispute over what counts as “old”
-Any definitions for old-growth or mature trees adopted by the Biden’s administration are “going to be subjective,” said Mark Ashton, a forestry professor at the Yale School of the Environment.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipDrinking WaterInfrastructureLake SuperiorLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsFRESH: Biden Strengthens Environmental Reviews for Large Infrastructure Projects
-Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today.
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AdvocacyAPFish, Birds and AnimalsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsGroup: Feds hid plans to weaken whooping crane protection
-The Biden administration made secret plans to weaken protection for whooping cranes, and documents obtained through an open records request show officials “seem to have been deliberately misleading the public.”
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APIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentInfrastructureNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsWisconsinBiden, Cabinet fan out around nation to sell domestic agenda
-President Joe Biden visited Wisconsin on Wednesday to promote one of his top accomplishments, a bipartisan infrastructure measure that will distribute billions of dollars to fix roads, bridges and other public works.
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APIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentInfrastructureNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsWisconsinBiden to follow State of Union address with Wisconsin trip
-President Joe Biden travels to Wisconsin next week, the day after delivering his State of the Union speech in Washington.
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APIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentInfrastructureLake ErieNewsOhioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsWater Quality and Restoration Efforts
Biden: Infrastructure plan gives $1B for Great Lakes cleanup
-The $1 billion for the Great Lakes from the bipartisan measure, combined with annual funding through an ongoing recovery program, will enable agencies by 2030 to finish work on 22 sites designated as among the region’s most degraded.
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APDrinking WaterIllinoisIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentInfrastructureNewsOhioPennsylvaniaPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsBiden plan to spend $725M to clean up abandoned coal mines
-Pennsylvania is eligible for $245 million. Other significant amounts include $75 million for Illinois and $46 million for Ohio.
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Climate ChangeCOP26COVID-19Drinking WaterEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature HomepageFeature LeadGary WilsonIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentInfrastructureLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsBiden’s First Year: An infrastructure win, but climate and justice plans struggle
-After a year of wins and losses for the Biden administration, environmental law attorney Nick Schroeck talks policy, climate, environmental justice, Line 5, and what it all means for the Great Lakes in this Q&A.
