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AdvocacyAgricultureAuthorsClimate ChangeIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentNatasha BlakelyNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectWater Quality and Restoration EffortsWater WithdrawalsWaterfront DevelopmentIJNR Snapshots: Some Ohio farmland is being returned to its glory days as the Great Black Swamp
-The Black Swamp Conservancy has been attempting to bring back some of Ohio’s wetlands, buying up farmland to convert into nature reserves. GLN News Director Natasha Blakely learned more while on a fellowship with the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources. Read her reports.
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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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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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Erie Hack: Preventing, solving and tracking toxic algae bloom most popular issue for teams to tackle
-Nine teams will continue on to the finals, which will be June 20 in Cleveland.
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Report: Warming climate will challenge Great Lakes states
-Climate change is impacting temperature increases in the Great Lakes region faster than in neighboring and the contiguous 48 states. That’s the conclusion of a report released last week by a collaboration of scientists and policy specialists in the U.S. and Canada.
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AuthorsBudgetEquity and Environmental JusticeGary WilsonIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentNewsPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeProtectU.S. and Canadian Federal GovernmentsWater Quality and Restoration EffortsNew Trump budget again proposes drastic cuts for the U.S. EPA, Great Lakes
-Titled “A Budget for a Better America,” the Trump administration’s 2020 budget released on Monday makes another attempt to subject the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to draconian funding cuts and proposes to all but eliminate the Obama-era Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
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AdvocacyAgricultureAuthorsBudgetDrinking WaterEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingEquity and Environmental JusticeJames ProffittLake ErieNewsPolicySandra SvobodaThe Lake Erie Bill of Rights
-In advance of this week’s vote on a measure that would grant Lake Erie certain legal status, Great Lakes Now is bringing a variety of perspectives about the issue with these extended conversations.
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AdvocacyAgricultureAuthorsEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingEquity and Environmental JusticeIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake ErieNewsOhioPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeSandra SvobodaWaterfront DevelopmentThe Global Movement in Local Courts
-If Toledo voters approve the Lake Erie Bill of Rights proposal on their Feb. 26 ballots, how it will change environmental law and policy won’t be immediately be known.
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Blue EconomyClimate ChangeDrinking WaterEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentInvasive SpeciesNewsPolicyPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeResourceThe StatesFrom Bridge Magazine: Michigan Republicans kill Gov. Whitmer’s environmental overhaul plan
-The Republican-controlled Legislature killed Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s plan to reorganize Michigan’s environmental agency. It’s only the second time that has happened since 1963.
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Lights, Cameras, Drones … Great Lakes, Oceans,
-At the Thunder Bay International Film Festival filmmakers honestly but not too biasedly depict how daily living, energy use, and other industries impact communities and ecosystems locally and globally.
