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City officials, urban planners and environmental experts warn of a disconnect between Chicagoans’ perception of water abundance and reality.
They fear future scarcity unless there are radical changes in the way water is collected, distributed and consumed.
Environmental groups want all Michigan diesel trucks, buses and construction vehicles to catch exhaust pollutants with a filter. They say diesel pollution can cause 443 deaths and 57,000 missed work days in Michigan.
When John Dekker of Fennville, Mich., fills his hot tub, it’s so brown he can’t even see the top nozzle. When Kari Craton waters her garden, everything turns orange – before dying. Find out why residents of this rural Michigan town are outraged.
A new Michigan online service helps hunters streamline information-gathering. The state’s Mi-Hunt program provides information such as the location of public land open to hunting.
Southeast Michigan officials plan to encourage residents to use mass transit. A significant hurdle is a $1.8 billion shortfall to match reality with plans. A study ranks the region among the lowest for having money for transit projects.
You know the big names credited with major policy decisions that affect the basin.
But who are the people behind the names that shape Great Lakes policy?
This week: David Naftzger, head of the Council of Great Lakes Governors … and herder of political cats.
Three years shy of his family’s 100th year fishing for Lake Michigan whitefish, Paul Jensen rarely meets his quota.
Michigan has thousands of bear hunters. About 40 of them showed up for a recent Natural Resources Commission meeting in Lansing.
The commission was considering a new licensing system – one for hunting public land and another for hunting private land.
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.
Sharedearth.com is a new Web site where gardeners post requests for land to grow gardens and land owners post their available land to share.