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AdvocacyGroundwater ContaminationIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLeadMunicipalitiesNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeShipping and PortsWaterfront DevelopmentRestoring Howards Bay: Legacy lead and other contaminants are targets of dredging and capping
-Where Wisconsin and Minnesota share a Lake Superior harbor, a $13.8 million clean-up project at this Area of Concern will launch in 2020, removing lead and other contaminants, some a century old, that persist in the waterway.
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AdvocacyAuthorsBlue EconomyBudgetEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingEquity and Environmental JusticeGary WilsonGreat Lakes CommissionIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsAgency Overhaul: Great Lakes agenda to be foundation for reorganized state office
-Is the recent renaming of Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality an attempt to shed the shame or baggage of the Flint Water Crisis? Does it signal a significant change of course from the previous administration? Here’s what the administrator of the newly named office of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy told Great Lakes Now.
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Submit YOUR Great Lakes Photos
-Submit Your Favorite Great Lakes Photos to Detroit Public Television – and see them on air! DPTV’s Great Lakes Now…
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Bringing Back Milwaukee’s Swamps: Part II
-The Milwaukee Wetland Monitoring program is a citizen-science effort aimed at documenting some portion of the 400 ephemeral wetlands that still exist in Milwaukee County.
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Bringing Back Milwaukee’s Swamps: Part I
-The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Harbor District Inc. are just a few of the groups who are coming together to try and bring back Milwaukee’s natural wetlands.
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AdvocacyAuthorsBudgetDrinking WaterEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingEquity and Environmental JusticeGary WilsonGreat Lakes CommissionNewsPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectRecreation and TourismShipping and PortsThe StatesTourismU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsWaterfront DevelopmentGov. Gretchen Whitmer: “Michigan has to lead on Great Lakes issues”
-Great Lakes Now recently interviewed Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at a meeting of Great Lakes governors and Canadian premiers in Milwaukee.
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Industry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentNewsProtectScience, Technology, ResearchSharon OosthoekWater Quality and Restoration EffortsFiltering Microplastics from Your Machines: Ontario town to test potential solution for keeping microplastics out of the Great Lakes
-Next month, 100 households in Parry Sound, Ontario will install special filters on their washing machines designed to remove plastic microfibers from the machines’ waste water.
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AuthorsDetroitDrinking WaterEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingEquity and Environmental JusticeGary WilsonIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentNewsPFASPolicyWaterfront DevelopmentSuperfund Sites: New Detroit River site added for threats of PCB, metal, cyanide contamination
-The former McLouth Steel Corporation site in Trenton, Michigan, was added to the Superfund list in May because of its risk to the Detroit River.
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AdvocacyAuthorsDrinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeNatasha BlakelyNewsPolicyProtectResourceWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWater WithdrawalsSustainable Brands Day 4: It ended with a dance performance
-On the final day of the Sustainable Brands 2019 conference, discussions on policy, water challenges and advocacy continued.
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AdvocacyForever Chemicals FeaturedGroundwater ContaminationNewsPFASPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWatch Now: “The Forever Chemicals” documentary panel discussion
-Great Lakes Now Program Manager Sandra Svoboda, and MLive environmental reporter, Garret Ellison host a panel discussion on PFAS.
