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AgricultureCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeCollaborationDetroitDrinking WaterFeature DetroitFeature HomepageInfrastructureLatest NewsMichiganNewsScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration Efforts
Michigan’s climate-ready future: wetland parks, less cement, roomy shores
-What does Michigan’s future look like if we adequately prepare the state’s water resources for climate change? Goodbye to septics and shore-hugging homes. Hello to more diversified crops on Michigan farms.
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BudgetCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipDrinking WaterFeature MilwaukeeInfrastructureLatest NewsMilwaukeeNewsPolicyWisconsin
Congress’s Stealth Water Infrastructure Deal
-The American Rescue Plan Act allocated $350 billion to states, tribes, and local governments. Some of that money is available for upgrading water systems.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeCollaborationDetroitFeature DetroitFeature HomepageIndianaInfrastructureLatest NewsMichiganNewsScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration Efforts
Green Infrastructure: Cities around the Great Lakes plan for a changing future
-Rain gardens, bioretention features, adaptable parks and more are popping up all around the region.
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“Water is life” is the theme of day 1 of protests to shut down Enbridge Line 5
-A little two lane road and a fence topped with barbwire was all that separated Enbridge Energy’s big Line 5 pumping station and a little park where tribal members from all over the upper Midwest gathered.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesFeature HomepageIndigenous CommunitiesLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental Justice
Michigan vows to seek Line 5 profits if Enbridge defies shutdown order
-In a letter Tuesday, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer put Enbridge on notice that if the company keeps operating Line 5 in the Straits beyond Wednesday, the state will pursue legal action to recoup any profits Enbridge amasses from “wrongful use of the State’s property.”
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesFeature HomepageIndigenous CommunitiesLatest NewsMichiganNews
On eve of Line 5 shutdown deadline, Enbridge vows to defy Michigan order
-The Canadian petroleum company technically has until Wednesday night to stop piping oil through the Straits of Mackinac, according to the state of Michigan. But what happens if the company refuses to abide by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s order?
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Great Lakes Water Diversions Could Be More Numerous
-As the global climate warms and water scarcity mounts, Great Lakes water is more valuable than ever before.
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Plastic debris is getting into the Great Lakes, our drinking water, and our food
-Watershed cleanups are popular ways of dealing with local plastic pollution, but once large plastic trash disintegrates into microplastics, they’re nearly impossible to pick up.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationDrinking WaterFeature HomepageFish, Birds and AnimalsLake OntarioLatest NewsNewsOntarioResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchSharon OosthoekTorontoWater Quality and Restoration Efforts
Chemical Impact: Microplastic pollution more complex than we think, says new research
-Microplastics act like a chemical sponge, soaking up contaminants such as persistent organic pollutants and heavy metals. Those chemicals, in turn, appear to be causing deformities in larval fish.
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Flooding Tells ‘Two Different Stories’ In Michigan
-Climate disruption is revealing economic inequality.