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The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, heavily reliant on fish, berries and wild rice, wants to join the 60 other US tribes who the feds have granted control over setting water regulations.
A 2015 Duke University-led study found radioactive contaminants, such as byproducts of uranium and thorium, can be highly concentrated in this ash.
No one region of Illinois is safe from contamination of groundwater from coal ash.
For all the care and regulations surrounding coal ash in Michigan, it still leaks from its landfills and ponds into the groundwater, according to a recent report from Environmental Integrity Project.
In the Great Lakes region, coal ash polluted groundwater at 73 of 80 monitored sites.
It is one step in a decades long cleanup after the river and its fires helped spark environmental awareness nationwide.
A new study shows that border collies effectively reduced gull populations on beaches.
Could Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and other parts of the state get the propane gas it needs without the Line 5 Pipeline? A new report just released says “yes.”
Unless the Michigan legislature passes the governor’s proposed landfill fee bump, a program that’s recruited volunteers to test streams and lakes for 40 years will be terminated in 2019.
A river that once caught fire is once again among those under the microscope for pollution pouring into the Great Lakes, researchers say.