Politics, Policy, Environmental Justice

Jury can’t reach verdict in engineers’ Flint water trial

ByGreat Lakes Now 12 August 2022

By Ed White, Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) — A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after jurors said they couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict in a dispute over whether two engineering firms should bear some responsibility for Flint’s lead-contaminated water.

Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newman, known as LAN, were accused of not doing enough to get Flint to treat the highly corrosive water or to urge a return to a regional water supplier.

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What’s in Senate climate bill for Michigan? EV credits and cheaper insulin.

ByGreat Lakes Now 9 August 2022

By Kelly House, Bridge Michigan

The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television; and Michigan Radio, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; who work together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water.

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As species recover, some threaten others in more dire shape

ByGreat Lakes Now 8 August 2022

By John Flesher, Christina Larson and Patrick Whittle, Associated Press

GLEN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — In a forest near Lake Michigan, two scientists attached a backpack tracking device to a merlin they’d lured into a net. The mission: help prevent the predatory species from gobbling up piping plovers — highly endangered shorebirds that nest nearby.

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Michigan PFAS activists urge bolder action at fed hearing in East Lansing

ByGreat Lakes Now 8 August 2022

By Kelly House, Bridge Michigan

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Anger, uncertainty and a race for answers in Huron River chromium spill

ByGreat Lakes Now 4 August 2022

By Kelly House, Bridge Michigan

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State lawmakers consider taking away local authority to issue gravel mining permits

ByGreat Lakes Now 2 August 2022

By Lester Graham, Michigan Radio

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Great Lakes Moment: Students help save sturgeon

ByGreat Lakes Now 1 August 2022

The nonprofit organization called Sturgeon for Tomorrow and a team of U.S. and Canadian fishery biologists have been working together for seven years on the Sturgeon-in-the-Classroom program to engage students through community or citizen science and help reintroduce lake sturgeon in Great Lakes tributaries where they once thrived.

Brief history of lake sturgeon

In the late 1600s and early 1700s, French explorers and voyageurs noted that the waters from Lake Huron to Lake Erie teemed with lake sturgeon.

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Energy News Roundup: Indigenous communities take lead on energy projects, climate bill defeat impacts solar production

ByGreat Lakes Now 28 July 2022

Keep up with energy-related developments in the Great Lakes area with Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.

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Illinois:

Piatt County to consider amending wind-farm ordinance – The News-Gazette

The Piatt County Board in central Illinois is reviewing amendments to its wind energy regulations to provide more protection for drainage districts prior to approval of a new 300 MW wind farm.

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Why did the salamander cross the road?

ByGreat Lakes Now 27 July 2022

The blue-spotted salamanders have an important mission that takes them across a busy road of a park in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Every spring, the four-legged amphibians emerge from the soil and make their way to a nearby swamp to lay eggs and reproduce. After a few days there, they crawl back home to spend their summer living under logs and eating bugs.

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EPA Warns of Health Problems When PFAS Levels in Drinking Water Are Inconceivably Tiny

ByGreat Lakes Now 19 July 2022

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue

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PFAS News Roundup: Research and policy aiming to help eradicate “forever chemicals”

ByGreat Lakes Now 19 July 2022

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.

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Regulators: No Enbridge Line 5 tunnel decision without more safety info

ByGreat Lakes Now 18 July 2022

By Kelly House, Bridge Michigan

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