LANSING, Mich. – Ethanol is promoted as an eco-friendly tool to reduce air pollution because it can be made from common crops such as sugar cane, potato and corn. Is it the key to a renewable energy future?
(GA) Atlanta Journal-Constitution – Americans are using less water per person now than they have since the mid-1950s, thanks to water-saving technologies and a nationwide push to safeguard dwindling supplies.
(MI) The Detroit News - Congress approved legislation Thursday that includes $475 million to restore the Great Lakes by combating invasive species, cleaning up highly polluted sites and expanding wetlands.
(MI) Traverse City Record-Eagle - A White House panel developing a strategy for managing oceans and their coastlines is including the Great Lakes in its plan, which will propose ways to protect the environment while preventing conflicts among users.
(IN) The Post-Tribune - For the past week, U.S. Steel has been spraying contaminated wastewater collected from the bottom of its hazardous waste landfill into the air over the landfill.
(MI) The Petosky News Review - The Department of Natural Resources is trying to inform the Northern Michigan community about an order for a zero-bag limit for Walleye on Mullett Lake in Cheboygan County and the complicated numbers surrounding the tentative decision.
(IN) The Post-Tribune - The air around two Northwest Indiana elementary schools contains a slew of hazardous air pollutants, but not enough to be of short-term concern, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday.
(MI) Traverse City Record-Eagle - A downstate engineering firm will probe questions surrounding design and construction of Grand Traverse County’s troubled septage plant, an effort to determine whether its architects committed professional negligence.
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