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Michigan could implement ambitious clean energy mandates and have carbon-free electricity by 2040
-Michigan is on the verge of implementing one of the nation’s most ambitious clean energy mandates, aiming to be carbon-free by 2040.
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Do snitches net fishes? Scientists turn invasive carp into traitors to slow their Great Lakes push
-Wildlife officials across the Great Lakes are looking for spies to take on an almost impossible mission: stop the spread of invasive carp.
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Worsening warming is hurting people in all regions, US climate assessment shows
-Revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harm that is “already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States,” a massive new government report says.
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Canada says it can fight climate change and be major oil nation. Massive fires may force a reckoning
-Thousands of wildfires in Canada this year have incinerated an area larger than Florida, releasing into the atmosphere more than three times the amount of carbon dioxide that is produced by Canada in an entire year. And some are still burning.
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Strikers have shut down a vital Great Lakes shipping artery for days, and negotiations are looming
-A strike has shut down all shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway, interrupting exports of grain and other goods from Canada and the United States via the Great Lakes to the rest of the world.
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Federal forecasters predict warm, wet US winter but less snow because of El Nino, climate change
-The upcoming winter looks likely to be a bit low on snow and cold outbreaks, with forecasters predicting the North to get warmer than normal and the South wetter and stormier.
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Federal, local officials agree on $450 million deal to clean up Milwaukee waterways
-Federal, state and local officials have agreed to spend about $450 million to dredge contaminated sediment from Milwaukee’s Lake Michigan harbor and area rivers.
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Milwaukee suburb begins pulling millions of gallons per day from Lake Michigan
-A Milwaukee suburb has finally started to pull millions of gallons of water per day from Lake Michigan after spending years seeking approval from regulators.
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Historians race to find Great Lakes shipwrecks before quagga mussels destroy the sites
-An invasive mussel is destroying shipwrecks deep in the depths of the lakes, forcing archeologists and amateur historians into a race against time to find as many sites as they can.
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Study says drinking water from nearly half of US faucets contains potentially harmful chemicals
-Researchers described the study as the first nationwide effort to test for PFAS in tap water from private sources in addition to regulated ones.
