Echo
Dialing for danger? Many drivers do, new study shows
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A new study details the groups of Michigan drivers more likely to engage in the risky behavior.
Echo
Judges declaw Indiana zoo for illegally declawing Big Cat cubs, abusing animals
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A roadside zoo in Charlestown, Indiana, has violated the Endangered Species Act by declawing Big Cats – tigers, lions and hybrids – “without a medical necessity” and separating cubs as young as 1 day old from their mothers, a federal judge has ruled.
Echo
Remembering the birth of Isle Royale’s wolf-moose study
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When L. David Mech arrived at Isle Royale in 1959, he had no idea he would pioneer the nation’s longest-running prey-predator study, one that would become a model for wildlife biologists around the world.
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Ohio slaughterhouse operator sent to prison for environmental, money laundering crimes
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A federal judge in Ohio has sentenced an illegal slaughterhouse operator to 33 months behind bars for dumping animal blood and other “bodily fluids” into a waterway that empties into Beaver Creek and Lake Erie in violation of the Clean Water Act.
Art
Mobsters in the vacationlands
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From crime boss and occasional visitor “Scarface” Al Capone to the Upper Peninsula’s own Public Enemy #1, John “Red” Hamilton, Up North has historic ties to organized crime and the baddies who used the area as a playground.
Detroit
Gloom, doom and ruin draw visitors to Detroit, study says
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People who take such guided tours “are primarily interested not in the city’s auto manufacturing heritage but in its crumbling factories,” according to University of Washington in Tacoma Professor Emma Jean Slager.
Land
Abandoned mines aplenty, but cash to clean, close them, scarcer
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Nobody knows how many abandoned mine features such as tunnels, shafts, pits and waste piles remain on federal land in Michigan and elsewhere, but untold numbers of them pose safety and environmental threats, a new General Accountability Office (GAO) report says.
Echo
Remembering the UP’s break-away movement
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The time was the 1970s, when many Yoopers believed that the push to strengthen national and state environmental laws posed an economic threat to the U.P., especially its mining, lumbering and agricultural industries.
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Partisan divide widens over environmental policy priorities
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A growing proportion of Americans see environmental protection and global climate change as policy priorities, while worries about the economy are shrinking, a new national survey says.