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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.
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Algae BloomsAuthorsEquity and Environmental JusticeNatasha BlakelyNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectAlgae Map: Nonprofit group creates map tracking algae bloom outbreaks from 2010 to now
-Environmental Working Group released a map tracking all reported toxic algae bloom outbreaks.
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Drinking WaterEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesEquity and Environmental JusticeEvents and Special BroadcastsIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentNatasha BlakelyNewsPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeSustainable Brands Day 2: Great Lakes Now takes a look at the plastic problem
-Collaboration and engagement were pinpointed as key to tackling the issue of plastic waste on the second day of Sustainable Brands in Detroit.
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Art and Water: Wyandotte art exhibit focuses on water activism and Indigenous American artwork
-Though the Standing Rock controversy was the focus of the exhibition, art from local Native Americans was featured as well, and issues affecting Native Americans in the Great Lakes were brought up.
