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APDetroitDetroit RiverEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingNewsResourceWater Quality and Restoration EffortsEPA to design sediment remediation project for Detroit park
-The contaminated sediment at the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Centennial Park is within the Detroit River Area of Concern and identified by the U.S. and Canada as one of 43 toxic hot spots in the Great Lakes basin, according to the EPA.
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State, nonprofit grants to boost Detroit recycling efforts
-Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy will give the city more than $458,000. Another $325,000 is coming from The Recycling Partnership to increase participation in curbside and multifamily recycling programs.
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Cleanup of Detroit “green goo” contaminated site expected to cost millions
-According to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, efforts to contain the leak at the Electro-Plating Services Inc. site in Madison Heights has cost at least $200,000 over 24 days.
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AuthorsDetroit RiverEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentJohn HartigLatest NewsNewsShipping and PortsWaterfront DevelopmentGreat Lakes Moment: $50 Million sediment cleanup on Rouge River Old Channel will become a model
-At the center of a sediment cleanup project: Zug Island, which sits between Rouge and Detroit rivers.
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Station Marblehead: One of the Coast Guard’s busiest stations on the Great Lakes
-Join Great Lakes Now on a ride along with officers on Lake Erie for searches and safety work.
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State orders cleanup of aggregate spill into Detroit River
-Michigan environmental regulators have ordered a company to clean up limestone and other materials that its tenant spilled into the Detroit River last month.
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No excessive radiation at Detroit River aggregate spill site
-Staffers with the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy inspected the Detroit Bulk Storage property with federal and local officials, taking radiological measurements and sampling river water just offshore in southwest Detroit.
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Great Lakes Moment: U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., civil rights champion and supporter of clean environment for all
-In this month’s column, Great Lakes Now writer John Hartig talks about knowing and working with the late Rep. John Conyers on environmental and conservation issues in Detroit.
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Detroit RiverIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentJohn HartigNewsProtectRecreation, Tourism and CultureResearch, Data and TechnologyWaterfront DevelopmentGreat Lakes Moment: Five decades since the infamous Rouge River fire
-Great strides have been made in changing the state of the Rouge River in the years since the fire, though significant challenges still remain.
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AdvocacyAuthorsBlue EconomyBudgetClevelandDetroitEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingEquity and Environmental JusticefeatureInfrastructureJohn HartigNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectRegionShipping and PortsTourismU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsGreat Lakes Moment: Cleanup is not just a cost, but an investment
-A recent study released by the International Association for Great Lakes Research examines the link between Great Lakes cleanups and increasing economic revitalization in the region.
