Excess water that’s overwhelming London’s treatment plants, flooding basements and polluting the Thames River comes with a hefty pricetag for taxpayers: $1.4 million every year. Read More
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Water use restrictions have been lifted on the Municipality of Kincardine’s main drinking water system. With the system’s reservoir back online, the municipality announced on Thursday that restrictions implemented late last month had been lifted. But residents on the system can expect another water conservation period in October, with full reservoir repairs being delayed until […]
Great Lakes Water Authority removed from state and federal oversight
The Great Lakes Water Authority in Detroit announced that due to the continued high level of performance of its Water Resource Recovery Facility, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has terminated the Administrative Consent Order it imposed more than a decade ago due to frequent non-compliance of the utility’s National Pollutant Discharge…
Michigan toddlers to receive universal lead testing under new legislation
This article was republished here with permission from Planet Detroit.
By Nina Ignaczak, Planet Detroit
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is expected to sign bills requiring doctors to test children for lead exposure at one and two years old following the Michigan Legislature’s Tuesday approval of the two-bill package.
City should have shut down unlicensed rental home long before fire: Legal advocate
The dangerous living conditions exposed by a fire at a northeast London home, where an unlicensed rental went seemingly unchecked for years, highlight the complexities of a deepening housing crisis and problems at city hall, critics say.
Reporting the environmental impact of war
Fields pockmarked by bombs, forests torn up by trenches and littered with landmines, cities around the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine flooded and then left with a water shortage as the reservoir dries up.
These scenes in Ukraine and Gaza are a few examples of how war leaves long lasting damage to the environment.
The post Reporting the environmental impact of war first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.
“Poisonous Ponds: Tackling Toxic Coal Ash” featured on One Detroit program
A special segment for Detroit Public Television’s public affairs program, “One Detroit,” features Great Lakes Now’s collaborative reporting project about coal ash.
A toxic substance, coal ash is what’s left over after burning coal. While the use of coal is declining across the Great Lakes region, the ash that remains from decades of producing energy with it is a problem.