The owner of a Northwest Indiana steel mill will pay $3 million in penalties, donate more than 100 acres of land for conservation, and agreed to pollution controls after a 2019 spill of ammonia and cyanide from the mill killed thousands of fish in a Lake Michigan tributary. Read the full story by the Chicago Sun-Times.
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PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a group of widespread man-made chemicals that don’t break down in the environment or the human body and have been flagged as a major contaminant in sources of water across the country.
Keep up with PFAS-related developments in the Great Lakes area.
PFAS News Roundup: Impact of PFAS on farming, proposed cuts to the EPA
Keep up with PFAS-related developments in the Great Lakes area with Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.
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Illinois
Farmer Claiming PFAS Pollution From Mine Sent to Arbitration — Bloomberg Law News
An Illinois appellate court on Friday ordered a dispute between a farmer and a mining company over alleged water pollution from firefighting foam used to extinguish a fire at a mining operation be settled in arbitration, reversing a lower court decision.
Spring flooding worsens erosion near Enbridge pipeline, heightening fears of exposure
Spring flooding has worsened riverbank erosion near Enbridge’s Line 5 oil and gas pipeline on the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s reservation in northern Wisconsin. According to court documents, the river ran over its banks on April 11 at an area known as “the meander” where erosion threatens to expose the pipeline. Read…
Amid Michigan’s water infrastructure woes, lawmakers renew push for a state septic code
Michigan remains the only state without a septic code, with recent efforts failing to gain traction within the Legislature. As the state contends with flooding and sewer backups, addressing individual septic systems is yet another element in addressing aging infrastructure and water quality issues for both inland waters and the Great Lakes. Read the full…
What’s stopping wind energy on the Great Lakes?
A first-of-its-kind project has been approved for Lake Erie: six turbines eight miles from the Cleveland shoreline. But it hasn’t come easy. The Allegheny Front presents this episode of “Points North,” a biweekly podcast about the evolving land, water and inhabitants of the Upper Great Lakes produced by Interlochen Public Radio. Read and listen to…
Water is unaffordable across Michigan, study shows
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