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PFAS in the House: Are toxic “forever chemicals” a steady drip in this reporter’s home?
-I had my blood, my cat’s blood and many products in my home tested for the toxic ‘forever chemicals.’ Here’s what I found.
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COVID-19FreightersIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsNatasha BlakelyNewsShipping and PortsStalled Ships: Shipping industry looks to infrastructure investments to boost demand
-With drops of tonnage on the Great Lakes due to COVID-19, many in the industry are hoping long-term infrastructure investments will turn things around.
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Industry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsNatasha BlakelyNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsLack of Enforcement: Less compliance with environmental laws means more pollution in the lakes
-Over the length of President Donald Trump’s term, not only were a number of environmental regulations rolled back, enforcement of the ones that remained dropped.
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Minnesota lawmakers introduce anti-copper mining legislation
-The effort directly opposes a proposed Twin Metals underground copper-nickel mine near Ely that opponents say could contaminate the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
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APEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentNewsOhioPolitics, Policy, Environmental Justice2 nuke plants, 1 bribery scandal, no answers: Towns on edge
-The uncertainty surrounding the future of both Ohio plants — Davis-Besse near Toledo and Perry near Cleveland — has created a new wave of anxiety that is stretching into another year after state lawmakers put off deciding whether to repeal the bailout.
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Enbridge rejects Michigan’s demand to shut down oil pipeline
-Enbridge said Tuesday it would defy Michigan’s demand to shut down an oil pipeline that runs through a channel linking two of the Great Lakes.
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CollaborationCOVID-19Cruise ShipsIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake ErieLatest NewsNewsOntarioPolicyWaterfront DevelopmentFamily-owned fishing businesses displaced by waterfront developments on Great Lakes
-Working waterfront access — the access needed by fishing folks to unload their catch, process fish and retrieve ice and fuel — is being affected by coastal gentrification.
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DetroitFeature DetroitIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentJohn HartigLatest NewsMichiganNewsWaterfront DevelopmentGreat Lakes Moment: A new vision for the former McLouth Steel site in Trenton
-While the blighted buildings have been torn down, the controversy is not over as stakeholders debate over what to do with the cleared site.
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Dismissed: Michigan advocates outraged by state’s bottled water decision
-After two years, the groups were told by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy that they filed the contested case with the wrong agency.
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Gary WilsonIllinoisIndianaIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMichiganMinnesotaNew YorkNewsOhioPennsylvaniaPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWisconsinCOVID-19 Compliance: Agencies grapple with environmental protection in the COVID-19 era
-How did the Great Lakes states approach enforcement of environmental protection during COVID-19?
