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Great Lakes Moment: Small habitat patches can have big ecological impact
-Researchers found that preserving small, isolated patches of land is just as critical to biodiversity and saving species as preserving large swathes of it. Key examples reside in Detroit and Chicago.
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BP agrees to $500K penalty, soot limits at Indiana refinery
-Oil giant BP agreed Thursday to pay a $512,450 penalty and reduce soot emissions from its Whiting refinery in Indiana under an agreement with regulators and activists who accused the company of violating an earlier deal.
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Spike Sustained: As COVID-19 policies relax, park attendance (mostly) remains strong
-Continued fluctuations in park attendance are causing adjustments to how some parks operate.
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Sustainable Shipping: Burns Harbor port tries to green Indiana’s industrial coast
-A water cannon, a truck marshalling yard and 400 trees are just some of the ways the Ports of Indiana-Burns Harbor is trying to mitigate the impacts of the huge steel industry that lives on Indiana’s northwest coast.
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17 Indiana state parks closing for 4 days of deer hunts
-The hunts are scheduled for Nov. 15-16 and Nov. 29-30, with the parks closing the evening before and reopening the next day.
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Utility eyes earlier shutdown of Lake Michigan power plant
-A northern Indiana utility company is looking to shutter a coal-fired power plant along Lake Michigan two years earlier than planned.
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Drinking Water News Roundup: Minnesota’s salty water problem, aging infrastructure affects taste, Pennsylvania grants
-Catch the latest drinking water updates with Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.
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Missed Acid Delivery at Root of Midwest Plant Iron Discharge: US Steel Correspondence
-In a document sent to the state, U.S. Steel Corp. said a chain of events kicked off by a missed acid delivery to its Midwest Plant in Portage led to a large discharge of iron into a nearby waterway in late September.
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Nearly Two Dozen Communities Awarded State Water Infrastructure Fund Grants
-The Indiana Finance Authority selected 22 municipalities out of more than 500 that applied to receive $63 million in grants from the first round of State Water Infrastructure Fund program funding.