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Climate ChangeCollaborationEquity and Environmental JusticeLatest NewsNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeU.S. and Canadian Federal Governments
Youth climate activists want an official seat at the table in Biden’s White House
-Young climate activists were key players in Joe Biden’s November victory. But will Biden give them decision-making power?
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeDrinking WaterInfrastructureLatest NewsMichiganNewsResearch, Data and TechnologyScience, Technology, Research
Water could make the Great Lakes a climate refuge. Are we prepared?
-Michigan and the Great Lakes region — with an abundance of fresh water, warming winters and less fire-prone forests — stand to attract millions of new residents in the coming years looking to escape flooded coastal areas and the parched land of the West.
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Excited about Biden: Detroit advocate hopeful on environmental justice progress after decades of inertia
-Michelle Martinez, acting executive director and statewide coordinator for Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, spoke to Great Lakes Now about her history with Detroit, environmental justice and the new president.
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Charles Stewart Mott Foundation PartnershipClimate ChangeDrinking WaterEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesLatest NewsMichigan
Should future plans for Line 5 consider climate change?
-Read or listen to the Interlochen report on Michigan Radio.
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Michigan is on thin ice. Get used to it, climate experts say.
-Great Lakes ice cover is near record lows and expected to remain low through winter, threatening key ecosystems and the state’s $2.3 billion recreational fishing industry.
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Biden environmental challenge: Filling vacant scientist jobs
-Employment data shows more than 670 science jobs lost at the EPA, 150 at the U.S. Geological Survey and 231 at the Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Great Lakes seeing low ice cover compared to this time last year
-Currently, around 2.4% of the Great Lakes are covered by ice, concentrated in the Green Bay region off Lake Michigan and Saginaw Bay in Lake Huron.
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Lifeblood: Photographer shares the Lake Erie connection uniting shoreline residents
-In the documentary photo series North of Long Tail, photographer Colin Boyd Shafer tells the stories of more than 20 residents of Lake Erie’s north shore.
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Climate ChangeCOVID-19Drinking WaterFreightersGary WilsonGreat Lakes Now's Year-End PostsLatest NewsMichiganNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental Justice
2020 in Review: Climate change, COVID-19 and Michigan’s governor
-Of course, a lot also happened in 2020 that did not garner the attention that COVID-19 and climate change did.