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West Michigan video company shoots environment from a drone
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West Michigan company shoots projects as diverse as extreme sports, high end real estate, marketing materials.
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Despite failed bid for FAA test site, Michigan officials see promise in drones
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Minnesota and Ohio are also among the states that unsuccessfully sought the designation to host test sites for drones.
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Unmanned aircraft business takes off
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Flint area man and his son shoot promotional video with remotely operated drone aircraft.
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A drone is still a drone by any other name
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We’re always on the look out for innovative stories and reporting techniques at Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism. In a couple weeks we’ll launch a series on civilian applications of drones for gathering information about the environment. I teach a course encompassing remote sensing, including the use of drones, as newsgathering tools. So a story in the print edition of the New York Times, Drones Offer Journalists a Wider View, caught my eye at Monday’s breakfast table. It’s an interesting enough piece about a controversial technology.
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Nitrogen air pollution affects atmosphere, forests, water
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With every gas-powered car and every traditional wastewater treatment plant, a little nitrogen pollution gets released into the atmosphere. Scientists say it settles into the soil and may even lead to toxic algae blooms that kill fish.
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China second largest source of Great Lakes mercury pollution
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China is second to the U.S. in terms of contributing mercury into the Great Lakes basin, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Durbin needs to focus on Great Lakes threats from his own state
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Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin recently came out against issuing a permit to keep the S.S. Badger operating on Lake Michigan. That’s an easy call seeing as the old coal-fired ferry doesn’t provide jobs in his state.
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Lung group says Michigan should inspect car exhaust
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Michigan doesn’t require the inspection of vehicle exhaust systems. That is unlike Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Michigan’s air quality meets federal standards for ozone, a pollutant created in part by car exhaust.
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Robot week: Lure of nearshore data prompts a Great Lakes buoy arms race
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Red, yellow and blue squares on online maps mark where research scientists Steven Ruberg and Guy Meadows deploy techno-savvy buoys to measure nearshore conditions in the Great Lakes.
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Smog rules promise better health, jobs
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(MI) The Detroit News – While I welcome comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed health standards for smog, the arguments in a Detroit News editorial are dangerously misleading (“Policies and priorities: If Obama is to fulfill his job creation pledge, he must consider the impact of every action on employment,” Jan. 12). The editorial suggests that we cannot afford protections from pollution that dangerously impacts children and the elderly; that leads to severe and even fatal respiratory problems; and that costs families in higher medical bills. More