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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationFeature HomepageGroundwater ContaminationIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentInfrastructureLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsFlush with cash, Michigan lawmakers try again to pass state septic code
-Democratic lawmakers want to end Michigan’s “shameful” reign as the only state without a statewide code to prevent leaky systems from fouling lakes, rivers and groundwater.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingFeature HomepageIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeU.S. Pushes Farmers to Develop A New Crop: Energy
-But more heavily fertilized corn and more manure for methane raises worries about water pollution.
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AuthorsChicagoEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesEnergy News RoundupEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingFeature HomepageIllinoisIndianaIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentKathy JohnsonLatest NewsMichiganMinnesotaNewsOhioWisconsinEnergy News Roundup: Line 5 negotiations in Michigan, funding for clean energy in Illinois
-Catch the latest in Great Lakes energy news in Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.
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AuthorsDetroitDetroit RiverDuluthIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentJohn HartigLatest NewsMichiganMinnesotaNewsOntarioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeRegionWater Quality and Restoration EffortsGreat Lakes Moment: Solving the contaminated sediment remediation funding puzzle
-Michigan has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to remediate these contaminated sediments, but this won’t occur unless non-federal partners can meet funding requirements.
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APEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingFeature HomepageIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake MichiganLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchThe StatesCompany seeks first-time restart of shuttered nuclear plant
-If successful, Palisades would become the first U.S. nuclear reactor to restart after its fuel has been removed.
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AgricultureCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeCollaborationDrinking WaterEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingFeature HomepageIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsNewsScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsU.S. Counts on “Climate-Smart” Farms to Slow Global Warming
-But skeptics assert change in practices could increase risk to water and health.
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AuthorsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipDrinking WaterFeature HomepageGroundwater ContaminationIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentJames ProffittLatest NewsMichiganNew YorkNewsOhioResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsA deep dive into disposing waste from East Palestine’s derailment
-Public alarm over Vickery Environmental deep well injection site is decades late.
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AdvocacyAuthorsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature HomepageGary WilsonIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMichiganNewsOntarioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeScience, Technology, ResearchThe StatesU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsFormer U.N. adviser warns on water futures trading, elevates water crisis to level of climate
-Canada’s Maude Barlow says Michigan, Canada Line 5 dispute is on the “back burner” between Trudeau and Biden.
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Some banned pesticides fade from Great Lakes air, while others persist
-Urban versus rural pesticide use may be key to understanding why some chemicals dissipate more quickly than others.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationDetroitEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesFeature DetroitIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeThe StatesU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsEnbridge Line 5 tunnel project in Michigan delayed another 1.5 years
-Permitting delays have tacked on another year-and-a-half to the planned Line 5 tunnel project under the Straits of Mackinac.
