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Many scientists predict that as climate change becomes more extreme, dry and coastal regions around the globe will be heavily impacted by drought and rising sea levels. Entire communities could disappear. The art project, ‘A People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting,’ documents these threatened areas.
Despite the near-record snowfall in Michigan that created a banner year for snow-related sports, snowmobile fatalities haven’t climbed with the piles of snow.
Lansing, Mich. and Madison, Wis. are two of three capital cities who will receive Green Design Assistance from the EPA. With the grant, Lansing plans to develop a park on the state capitol complex .
By Eric FreedmanGreat Lakes EchoA federal judge in Detroit has rejected a challenge to a former landlord’s conviction for illegally dumping an estimated 107,000 gallons of raw sewage into Southeast Michigan’s Huron River. U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland rebuffed an effort by David Kircher to overturn his 2006 conviction for violating Michigan’s Natural Resources and Protection Act in a way that “substantially endangers” the public. He was sentenced to five years in state prison and fined $1 million. Earlier, the state Court of Appeals upheld the conviction and sentence. The case arose from an October 2004 incident when sewage backed up at the Eastern Highlands apartment complex that Kircher then owned in Ypsilanti Township near Ann Arbor.
The bill is supported by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, but it is not without controversy.
Echo is considering a redesign. I say that with some trepidation. I have found that technical and design questions regarding web projects can paralyze action. The delays frustrate getting quality content into your hands fast. And Echo works now.
You may have caught this weird judicial twist in a recent Great Lakes Echo story: A Wisconsin judge ruled that manure was not a waste but a valuable commodity. That’s no surprise. Anyone with a backyard garden knows that. But providing that legal stamp produced a counter-intuitive outcome. It meant that an insurer was on the hook for damages when a farm polluted nearby wells with that valuable manure.
What seemed like a good idea at the time could prove to be costly nightmare for an investor being sued for the cost of cleaning up contaminated manufacturing property in northern Indiana.
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Check out this nifty graphic produced by QUEST and that details strategies for keeping Asian carp out of the Great Lakes. Better yet, check out the story that goes with it.
While cold weather isn’t particularly new for Michigan vineyards, the recent string of record-breaking lows have raised some serious concerns amongst winemakers.