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Two Sides of the Line 5 Pipeline in the Great Lakes
-The end of November and the month of December brought many new developments for the Line 5 Pipeline which runs between Michigan’s Lower and Upper Peninsula in the Straits of Mackinac.
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Are Great Lakes Emergency Responders ready for an oil spill in the Straits of Mackinac?
-At the 28th Annual “No Spills” Conference January 3 through the 5th, emergency responders throughout the Great Lakes Region gathered to discuss ways to protect the Great Lakes from spills of all kinds and discussed new ways to respond in the event of a hazardous material spill that would affect the Great Lakes and its tributaries.
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Painting the Great Lakes
-An interview with artist Alexis Rockman If your ideas of Great Lakes paintings are beautiful sunsets,…
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Chasing Fugitive Dust in Detroit
-The Motor City finds ‘political will’ for cleaner air.
The story starts in 2013, when residents living in Windsor, Ontario in Canada noticed big black piles of some kind of material along the Detroit shoreline south of downtown.
A truck arrives with more petcoke on Detroit’s waterfront in 2013. Photo courtesy Stephen Boyle, FuzzyTek Images
It turned out to be petroleum coke, or petcoke, a byproduct Canadian tar sands oil processed at the Marathon refinery in Southwest Detroit. -
Water equity tops Great Lakes 2018 watch list
-Access to clean, affordable water for all top of mind for experts A Great Lakes Now canvass of regional water…
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Diminishing state budgets, federal deficits threaten environmental protection
-President Trump’s threatened budget cuts for Great Lakes restoration garnered most of the attention of Great Lakes advocates in 2017.
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