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Top Great Lakes Now News

Wisconsin Supreme Court Delivers Win for Environmentalists in Fight over ‘Forever Chemicals’

Wisconsin Politics · Madison

Wisconsin Supreme Court Delivers Win for Environmentalists in Fight over ‘Forever Chemicals’

60% Center coverage: 73 sources

Harmful Algal Bloom Predicted for Lake Erie

Donald Trump · Cincinnati

Harmful Algal Bloom Predicted for Lake Erie

34% Center coverage: 9 sources

Most of the blooms will be in the western side of the lake this summer.See the Story

Chicago Residents Risk Daily Lead Exposure From Toxic Pipes. Replacing Them Will Take Decades.

Climate Change · Chicago

Chicago Residents Risk Daily Lead Exposure From Toxic Pipes. Replacing Them Will Take Decades.

75% Left coverage: 4 sources

Growing up in Chicago, Chakena D. Perry knew not to trust the water coming out of her tap. “It was just one of these unspoken truths within households like mine — low-income, Black households — that there was some sort of distrust with the water,” said Perry, who later learned that Chicago is the city with the most lead service lines in the country. “No one really talked about it, but we never used our tap for just regular drinking.” Now, as a s…See the Story

After Trump Cuts, Michigan Helps Pay for Remainder of Climate Work Program • Michigan Advance

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

Nick Panicola helps conduct a waste audit of the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City in July 2024 as part of his position as a MI Healthy Climate Corps member. (File photo: Izzy Ross/IPR News)This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Lucas Roff met his then-girlfriend when he was going to college at Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie. After he g…Donald Trump See the Story

Great Lakes scientists discover new lifeform microbe, name it ShipGoo1

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Duluth found the previously-undiscovered microorganisms hiding in the tar-like goo oozing out of a research vessel’s rudder shaft.NASA · Duluth See the Story

Wisconsin DNR expands private well PFAS testing to five Oneida County townships

By Katie Thoresen, WXPR This story was originally published by WXPR. WXPR is a community-licensed public radio station serving north central Wisconsin and adjacent areas of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Listen to their stories here. People on private wells in five Oneida County Townships in Wisconsin may be offered free PFAS testing. Read Now at Great Lakes Now.Oneida County, Wisconsin · Oneida County Read Article

Where the strawberries still grow

“Nibi Chronicles,” a monthly Great Lakes Now feature, is written by Staci Lola Drouillard. A Grand Portage Ojibwe direct descendant, she lives in Grand Marais on Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior. Her nonfiction books “Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe” and “Seven Aunts” were published 2019 and 2022, and the children’s story “A Family Tree” in 2024. Read Now at Great Lakes Now.Grand Marais · Grand Marais Read Article

‘It Gives Me a Lot More Freedom’: Stroke Survivors on All-Terrain Wheelchairs at State Parks

100% Center coverage: 1 sources

POWHATAN COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) -- Virginia State Parks are becoming more accessible after launching a pilot program of all-terrain wheelchairs (ATW). The wheelchairs are making it possible for those with mobility impairments to hit the trails. 8News had the chance to talk to two stroke survivors about the ATWs. The two women both love the outdoors, but their strokes have kept them from being able to enjoy it the way they once did. But now, they s…Cleveland, Ohio · Cleveland See the Story

EDITORIAL: Line 5 tunnel plan raises red flags for Great Lakes water, wildlife and wetlands - Great Lakes Commission

The draft environmental impact statement details serious environmental concerns linked to the proposed Line 5 tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac, including permanent loss of wetlands and vegetation, disruption of […]Wildfires · Michigan See the Story

Rescuing Freighters and Busting Swamps

A freighter takes on water in Lake Superior and a lawsuit over farming on wetlands.Farming · Michigan Read Article

What Will the Rise of Floating Solar Panels Mean for Wildlife?

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

The newest, hottest power couple doesn’t live in Hollywood. It’s actually the marriage of solar panels and water reservoirs: Known as floating photovoltaics, or floatovoltaics, the devices bob on simple floats, generating power while providing shade that reduces evaporation. One primary advantage of the technology is that you don’t have to clear trees to make way for solar farms. As an added bonus, the water cools the panels, increasing their e…Climate Change · United States See the Story

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