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AgricultureDrinking WaterForever Chemicals FeaturedIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentKathy JohnsonLatest NewsMichiganNewsPFASPFAS News RoundupResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWisconsinPFAS News Roundup: High levels of “forever chemicals” found in pesticides, artificial turf
-Catch the latest updates on what’s happening with PFAS in Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.
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AdvocacyAgricultureAPIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMinnesotaNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectWater Quality and Restoration EffortsMN Supreme Court: Farm country stream is protected waterway
-It’s unclear whether the ruling will affect other conflicts around the state involving drainage projects that preserve farmlands but increase the volume of pollutants flowing downstream.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationFeature HomepageInfrastructureLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeThe StatesWater Quality and Restoration EffortsAs septic pollution roils Higgins Lake, Michigan lawmakers consider reform
-A bill would require inspection of septic systems when homes are sold. It’s meant to address worries that old systems are failing.
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APClimate ChangeFoodHistory and CultureIndigenous CommunitiesIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMinnesotaNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeScience, Technology, ResearchTribal Governments and First NationsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsMinnesota Ojibwe harvest sacred, climate-imperiled wild rice
-Wild rice is sacred to Indigenous peoples in the region, because it’s part of their creation story — and because for centuries it staved off starvation during harsh winters.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationForever Chemicals FeaturedLatest NewsMichiganNewsPFASPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeThe StatesWater Quality and Restoration EffortsDana Nessel sues former west Michigan company over PFAS, other pollution
-The suit blames FKI Hardware Inc. for contaminating nine west Michigan properties with PFAS, volatile organic compounds and metals before exiting Michigan in 2016.
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AgricultureAlgae BloomsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationFeature HomepageIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake ErieLatest NewsMichiganNewsOhioPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsRemedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice
-They are expensive, in many cases experimental, and take a long time to work.
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APForever Chemicals FeaturedGroundwater ContaminationLatest NewsNewsPFASPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeThe StatesWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWisconsinEvers administration relaunches efforts to limit PFAS
-Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration is trying again to limit the levels of a group of chemicals known as PFAS in Wisconsin’s groundwater.
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APEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature HomepageFlintIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake HuronLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectThe StatesWater Quality and Restoration EffortsState cracks down on Flint company after Flint River spill
-State regulators on Monday ordered a Flint chemical company to truck wastewater to a water treatment plant, weeks after it was blamed for an oily discharge in the Flint River.
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AdvocacyAgricultureAlgae BloomsCharles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipCollaborationDrinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeFeature HomepageIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectThe StatesWater Quality and Restoration EffortsPowerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators
-Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land.
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Lake HuronLatest NewsNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, ResearchWater Quality and Restoration EffortsSinkhole Science and other underwater research
-Scientists have been exploring the bottoms of the Great Lakes to learn more about natural world and human history.
