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FRESH: New Wisconsin Law Aims to Protect Watersheds From Farm Runoff
-Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesIndigenous CommunitiesLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration Efforts
With lawsuits stalled in Michigan, Nessel seeks Line 5 shutdown in Wisconsin
-The attorney general on Wednesday filed a brief in Wisconsin federal court supporting a Native American tribe’s effort to shut down the Line 5 pipeline over fears of a rupture into a river that runs through tribal land.
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Lake Erie along Pennsylvania’s shoreline on its way to becoming national marine sanctuary
-President Joe Biden’s administration took the first step Thursday toward designating the Pennsylvania-owned section of Lake Erie as the state’s first national marine sanctuary.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationFish, Birds and AnimalsInvasive SpeciesLatest NewsMichiganNewsWater Quality and Restoration Efforts
More fallout from Midland dam failures: blood-sucking parasites in rivers
-The Edenville and Sanford dams once blocked invasive lampreys from entering upstream rivers. But the 2020 dam failures provided an opening, and lamprey now threaten native fish. Regulators say they have a plan.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationIndigenous CommunitiesLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration Efforts
EPA wants Native American tribes to implement water quality standards equivalent to the Clean Water Act’s requirements
-The U.S. EPA proposes federal baseline water quality standards for lakes and streams on reservations.
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The Catch: National PFAS limits
-Take a look at proposed nationwide standards on PFAS from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationDetroitIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeRefreshWater Quality and Restoration Efforts
Once beset by industrial pollution, Rouge River on a slow path to recovery
-Thanks to the Clean Water Act, the Rouge is no longer a dumping ground for waste. But its gains are incomplete, with contaminants still soiling the river bottom and the fish in its waters.