Tag: Michigan
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Flint STILL Has a Water Crisis—9 Years Later
Jordan Chariton reports from Flint on the 9th anniversary of the Flint water crisis & cover up. “My water has a sewer smell off and on—and black shiny stuff coming out” —Joelena Freeman Imagine for a moment that you and your children are poisoned. The culprit who attacked you is, unbelievably, your own government. The…
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When dams cause more problems than they solve, removing them can pay off for people and nature
Photo: Maine’s Penobscot River flows freely where the Veazie Dam once stood. Dam removals have reopened the river to 12 native fish species. Credit: Gregory Rec/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images Across the United States, dams generate hydroelectric power, store water for drinking and irrigation, control flooding and create recreational opportunities such as slack-water…
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Great Lakes Scientist says, “If We Lose The EPA, We Lose Lake Erie”
At the 8th Binational Meeting of the Lake Erie Millennium Network, 125 scientists gathered at the University of Windsor in Ontario to hear experts weigh-in on the health of the southernmost, warmest and shallowest of the Great Lakes. They presented research on everything from climate change, water quality, phosphorous, agricultural run-off, cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), hypoxia…
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Pain, cancer, death: Michigan families devastated by toxic chemicals in their water
Sandy Wynn-Stelt at home in Belmont. ‘I’m sitting here full of this stuff and not knowing what it’s going to do to me five years, 10 years from now.’ Photograph: Tom Perkins In the years before 2017, Sandy Wynn-Stelt and her husband had suspicions about the water they drew from a well on their House…
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State chips in money for project to try to “destroy” PFAS in wastewater
Photo: The sample room at the Grand Rapids wastewater treatment facility. DUSTIN DWYER / MICHIGAN RADIO The swirling liquid rushes into concrete channels behind a black chain-link fence. “That is what sewage looks like,” says Nicole Pasch, who works in Environmental Services for the city of Grand Rapids. Pasch is showing off the wastewater treatment…
