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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeDrinking WaterEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesLatest NewsMichigan
Should future plans for Line 5 consider climate change?
-Read or listen to the Interlochen report on Michigan Radio.
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Michigan approves Great Lakes oil pipeline tunnel permits
-The decision, a victory for Enbridge Inc., comes as the Canadian company resists Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s demand to shut down its 68-year-old line in the Straits of Mackinac.
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BudgetCommercial FishingCOVID-19Indigenous CommunitiesLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental Justice
Federal Relief: Great Lakes fisheries finally get a cut of COVID-19 relief funds
-Great Lakes tribal fisheries were included in the $30 million allotted for tribal fisheries nationwide. Another $15 million was set aside for “non-tribal commercial, aquaculture, processor and charter fishery participants” in Great Lakes states.
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Minnesota lawmakers introduce anti-copper mining legislation
-The effort directly opposes a proposed Twin Metals underground copper-nickel mine near Ely that opponents say could contaminate the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
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APEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentNewsOhioPolitics, Policy, Environmental Justice
2 nuke plants, 1 bribery scandal, no answers: Towns on edge
-The uncertainty surrounding the future of both Ohio plants — Davis-Besse near Toledo and Perry near Cleveland — has created a new wave of anxiety that is stretching into another year after state lawmakers put off deciding whether to repeal the bailout.
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European Colonists Dramatically Increased North American Erosion Rates
-Around 200 years ago, when conversion of land for agriculture became more widespread, the amount of sediment accumulating in riverbeds across the continent jumped tenfold.