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The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy will be performing a phase 1 environmental assessment at a potential redevelopment site in Alma. The environmental assessment will determine what, if any, types of contaminants are on the site and whether or not remediation will be required before the parcel can be reused. Read the full story by the Morning Sun.

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Jan. 26, 1837, serves as the day Michigan officially became the 26th state. The Great Lakes State has much to offer, but we don’t need to tell you that. To celebrate 185 years, check out some of these Detroit News’ Michigan Marvels. Read the full story by The Detroit News.

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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has completed its annual Great Lakes survey season, conducted on all of our Great Lakes waters from April to November 2021. The data from these surveys directly informs fisheries management decisions and future actions on Great Lakes waters. Read the full story by the Iosco County News-Herald.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-fisheries

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A new report is recommending ways to protect an artesian aquifer in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, following a controversial proposal, that’s now being fought in court, to bottle and sell water from an artesian well in a Lake Superior watershed. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-report

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A new bill in Congress would require the U.S. Coast Guard to train and prepare for oil spills on the St. Lawrence River. The bill seeks to extend the Coast Guard’s required readiness levels for the Great Lakes to the St. Lawrence River and some Great Lakes tributaries. Read the full story by North Country Public Radio.

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Researchers with the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission say their surveys have found that many more endangered species could be affected by a proposed pipeline in Wisconsin than the oil company found in its own surveys. Read the full story by the Green Bay Press Gazette.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220126-oil

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Great Lakes steel production rose by 5,000 tons last week though output fell nationally. Locally, steel mills in the Great Lakes region, clustered mainly along the south shore of Lake Michigan in Northwest Indiana, made 634,000 tons of metal in the week that ended Jan. 22, up from 629,000 tons the previous week. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.

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...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... * WHAT...Very cold wind chills. Wind chills as low as 30 below zero. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, and northeast Wisconsin. * WHEN...Until Noon CST today. * IMPACTS...The dangerously cold wind chills could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 20 minutes.

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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Michigan students now can test watershed quality and model how groundwater flows in three dimensions with a new state classroom initiative. The Environmental Education Resource Lending Station became available in early December to Michigan educators through the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) Classroom Initiative.

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...BITTERLY COLD TEMPERATURES AND LOW WIND CHILLS EXPECTED THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... .Bitterly cold temperatures combined with west to northwest winds will result in hazardous conditions for anyone outdoors without appropriate winter clothing tonight through Wednesday morning. ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST WEDNESDAY...

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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Restore, Release: The Great Lakes Now Episode Quiz

Great Lakes Now tries to make every episode interesting and educational.

In “Restore, Release,” volunteers work to preserve a historic Great Lakes lighthouse, a Chicago community finds new life through embracing its past, and high school students learn about Native American culture with the help of lake sturgeon.

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Visit a Lighthouse: Explore history in one of the many preserved lighthouses around the Great Lakes

Go right to the list of lighthouses here. 

For Patrick McKinstry, his love of lighthouses began when he was 4 or 5 years old.  

He was on a family trip at the Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse in Mackinaw City, Michigan, and asking his mother what it was and if he could go in. 

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...BITTER COLD WIND CHILL READINGS EXPECTED TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING... .An arctic air mass combined with light northwest winds will produce bitter cold wind chill readings of 20 below to 35 below zero tonight into Wednesday morning. ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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The calendar has flipped to 2022. Our staff members are ready to tackle new projects in the coming 12 months, which also happens to mark Sea Grant’s 50th anniversary. Before they move more deeply into this anniversary, however, some staff members took a moment to retain the glow of their favorite 2021 project. Our resident fish and aquaculture maven—Sharon Moen who heads up the Eat Wisconsin Fish initiative—had a swimmingly successful effort to share for our last post in this series.

I dubbed my favorite 2021 effort, “Finding Fish in Wisconsin.” This quest for insights and interviews had me talking with commercial fishers, food-fish farmers and fish processors across the state in four bursts (see map). At different times, Wisconsin Sea Grant colleagues Bonnie Willison, Jennifer Smith, Titus Seilheimer and Marie Zhuikov were there, too.

My goal was to learn about the needs of Wisconsin’s food fish-producing industries and how Wisconsin Sea Grant could support their success, while gathering material to create fish producer profiles so that consumers can better understand who is producing their food and why fish from Wisconsin are safe to eat, a sustainable food choice and economically important.

While the conversations we had with fish producers are guiding Eat Wisconsin Fish activities in 2022, Willison has already turned some of the interviews into short videos that are available on Wisconsin Sea Grant’s YouTube playlist and elsewhere. If you are more into podcasts, Zhuikov wove interview excerpts into episodes of The Fish Dish, a new Wisconsin Sea Grant podcast.

This map, adapted from the Eat Wisconsin Fish website, shows Moen’s travels for the Finding Fish in Wisconsin effort. #1: Finding fish in Bayfield County (June) focused on Lake Superior commercial fisheries and processors. #2: Finding fish across the diagonal (July) spanned visits to farms raising shrimp, salmon, trout, yellow perch and more. #3: Finding fish near Sheboygan (August) was inspired by a tilapia farm and broadened to include visits with trout farmers, a fish smoking business and a commercial fisher. #4: Finding fish around Door County (November) included insights into the international fish roe trade and commercial fishing in Green Bay and Lake Michigan.

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Some communities in Michigan opt out of fluoridation

This article was republished here with permission from Great Lakes Echo.

By Danielle James, Great Lakes Echo

Even as community water systems are praised by the state for maintaining fluoride levels, others are still holding out.

Fluoride strengthens teeth and reduces cavities by about 25% in children and adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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The National Park Service recently placed Fishtown on the National Register of Historic Places, an official list of over 96,000 historic properties nationwide considered worthy of preservation.

The post Fishing heritage in Leland gets preservation boost first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.

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...COLD TEMPERATURES AND WIND WILL RESULT IN HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING... The combination of temperatures dropping into the single digits below zero, and northwest winds of 5 to 10 mph will produce wind chill readings to around 20 below zero at times late tonight into Tuesday morning. The lowest wind chills will occur between 500 am

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...BITTER COLD WIND CHILL READINGS EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING... The combination of temperatures dropping into the single digits below zero, and northwest winds of 5 to 10 mph will produce wind chill readings in the teens to near 20 below zero late tonight into Tuesday morning. Wind chill readings this low can produce

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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Wind Turbines: Where do they cluster around the Great Lakes?

Huge breezes are commonplace around the Great Lakes, which is part of why the region makes a good location for wind turbines.

Though wind power has been utilized for centuries, it has only been harnessed as a widespread alternative energy source as recently as the 1990s.

In 2016, the United States Geological Survey began tracking wind turbines.

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https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/01/wind-turbines-great-lakes/

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Richard Gray, 35, died Monday from a tragic accident aboard the 1,000 – foot freighter Walter J. McCarthy, off the shore of Gary, Indiana. Gray was a graduate of Great Lakes Maritime Academy. He also served as 1st Vice President of the International Shipmasters’ Association Grand Traverse Lodge #23. Read the full story by WWTV – WWUP-TV Traverse City.

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Throughout January, ice across the basin expanded beyond early projections that suggested the winter of 2022 might feature near-record low ice coverage. Now, maximum ice cover is expected to peak at 49 percent, a substantial jump from initial National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasting model. Read the full story by MLive.

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Research in a set of unique Canadian lakes is backing up a strange consequence of evolutionary theory often predicted but never shown. Given the right circumstances, fish get decades old but they don’t age. Read the full story by Canadian Press.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220124-lake-trout

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Internal documents reviewed by The Intercept describe how Enbridge launched an initiative known as Opposition Driven Operational Threats, or ODOT, to focus the company’s attention on Indigenous opposition to Line 3 and Line 5, two controversial pipelines that transport carbon-intensive tar sands oil between Canada and the United States. Read the full story by The Intercept.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220124-enbridge

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The Minnesota Environmental Partnership (MEP), the state’s largest coalition of environmental and conservation groups, proposed investments that would result in immediate and long-term reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and improvements in Minnesotans’ quality of life. Read the full story by Grand Rapids Herald-Review.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220124-climate

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Due to a Michigan Department of Environment Great Lakes and Energy 2019 decision to amend portions of the state’s Safe Water Drinking Act involving lead and copper rules, the South Haven Area Water and Sewer Authority must replace lead service lines leading to homes and businesses. Read the full story by The South Haven Tribune.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220124-lead

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Enbridge Energy currently operates the Line 5 pipeline, which runs under the Straits of Mackinac, and now they’re proposing to replace it with a tunnel to run the pipeline through. But experts say the current plan has major safety flaws. Read the full story by WSJM-TV –  St. Joseph, MI.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220124-line-5

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Our Latest Episode: Watch the Great Lakes Now program here

If you’re new to Great Lakes Now, find our latest episode below and ALL our monthly shows here.

If you’re a regular viewer of our monthly program on your local PBS station or our YouTube channel, thanks!

If you were looking for our show on Detroit Public Television on Wednesday, Jan.

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...LIGHT SNOW WILL END THIS MORNING... Light snow will gradually taper off from northwest to southeast by late morning. Additional snow accumulations less than an inch are expected. Roads will be snow covered and slippery, as cold temperatures will limit the effectiveness of melting agents. Be sure to allow

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...LIGHT SNOW WILL RESULT IN SLIPPERY ROADS THIS MORNING... Light snow will gradually taper off from northwest to southeast during the morning. During the rush hour, a steady light snow will still be falling over parts of central Wisconsin, the Fox Valley and lakeshore areas. Additional snow accumulations of a half inch to an inch can be expected in those areas.

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...LIGHT SNOW WILL RESULT IN SLIPPERY ROADS THIS MORNING... Light snow will gradually taper off from northwest to southeast during the morning. During the rush hour, the most significant snow will be occurring over the Fox Valley and lakeshore areas. Total accumulations will range from around a half inch in northern Wisconsin to 1 to 2 inches over the central and east central

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...LIGHT SNOW LIKELY TO RESULT IN SLIPPERY ROADS LATE TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING... Light snow will overspread the area tonight and then taper off Monday morning. Up to an inch of accumulation is expected across northern Wisconsin, with 1 to 2 inches across central and east- central portions of the state.

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...LIGHT SNOW RESULTING IN SLIPPERY ROADS... A band of light snow moving across central and east-central Wisconsin will exit the area early this morning. Accumulations will be light, with less than an inch of snow expected across most of area. Temperatures are well below freezing and will continue to slowly fall, so the snow will continue to accumulate on roads

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...LIGHT SNOW RESULTING IN SLIPPERY ROADS... A band of light snow moving across central, east-central, and portions of northeast Wisconsin will exit the area after midnight. Accumulations will be light, with less than an inch of snow expected across most of area. Temperatures were well below freezing and will continue to slowly fall, so the snow will continue to

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WILL CREATE SLICK SPOTS ON AREA ROADWAYS THIS AFTERNOON... Gusty west winds of 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph will cause some blowing and drifting of the new snow this afternoon. Roads and bridges could become snow covered and slippery again, especially on north-south roads and in open or rural areas.

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS WILL RESULT IN A BRIEF PERIOD OF LOW VISIBILITIES AND BRIEF BURST OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW... Radar indicated scattered snow showers from near Peshtigo to near Oconto to Shawano southward to Appleton and Oshkosh. The snow showers were moving to the east southeast at 30 mph. The heavier snow showers will be capable of producing a brief

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS WILL RESULT IN A BRIEF PERIOD OF LOW VISIBILITIES AND BRIEF BURST OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW... Radar indicated scattered snow showers were developing across northeast Wisconsin, from southeast of Antigo to near Breed in Oconto County southward to near Waupaca and near West Bloomfield in Waushara County. The snow showers were moving to the east

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...SLIPPERY ROADS EXPECTED THIS MORNING... Light snow will continue to taper off early this morning, with little additional accumulation expected. Roads remain snow covered and slippery in spots. Pavement temperatures are very cold due to the recent cold snap, limiting the effectiveness of melting agents. As a result, locally hazardous travel conditions will linger this

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...LIGHT SNOW WILL PRODUCE SLIPPERY ROADS EARLY THIS MORNING... A band of light snow will continue to move through the area early this morning. Around an inch of accumulation is expected at most locations. The snow will move through quickly, and should diminish to scattered snow showers or flurries across most of the area by daybreak.

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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...LIGHT SNOW LIKELY TO RESULT IN SLIPPERY ROADS OVERNIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING... A band of light snow will move across the area overnight. Around an inch of accumulation is expected at most locations. The snow will move through quickly, and should diminish to flurries or end across most of the area by daybreak Saturday. The exceptions will

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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service

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New study says elevated levels of PFAS found in anti-fogging sprays and cloths

By Timberly Ferree, Indiana Environmental Reporter

A new Duke University-led study has found that the anti-fogging sprays and cloths used to prevent condensation on eyeglasses contain toxic PFAS chemicals.

Researchers tested five top-rated anti-fogging cloths and four top-rated anti-fogging sprays sold on Amazon and found all the products to contain fluorotelomer alcohols (FTOHs) and fluorotelomer ethoxylates (FTEOs).

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THIS WEEK: Contact Your Local Officials to Ensure Your Community Benefits from Recent Federal Investments in Water; Registration: All About Water Symposium, Securing Federal Infrastructure Dollars; Personal and Organizational Wellness Online Series 2022; Chemicals in Water Systems in Indiana Communities

Time is NOW – Contact Your Local Officials to Ensure Your Community Benefits from Recent Federal Investments in Water

With the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law last year, there is cause to be excited yet focused and vocal in anticipation of a one-time, 5-year program (2022-2026) that will increase the amount of grants and low-interest loans available to local governments, especially those considered disadvantaged communities, to fund lead service line replacements and other large water storage, treatment, and distribution upgrades. Because the process of securing funds can be daunting, especially for smaller communities, we encourage you to connect with your local officials to help ensure applications are being prepared and plans are being made to secure and utilize these funds for community needs.  Find application deadlines and other information here.

Registration is Now Live: All About Water Symposium, Securing Federal Infrastructure Dollars

As promised, Freshwater Future and All About Water invite you to join experts, peer groups and municipal officials to learn about federal dollars that will be coming to states for water infrastructure projects, and how your municipality can benefit. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to secure funding through State Revolving Funds that are provided by Congress to help replace lead lines, update water and wastewater treatment plants, utilize green infrastructure to prevent or reduce flooding and more. REGISTER NOW!  February 17th, 10:30 am – noon EST.

Personal and Organizational Wellness Online Series 2022

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Toxic Forever Chemicals Found in Indiana Community Water Systems 

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management recently detected PFAS chemicals in drinking water in several communities. Since the 1940s, PFAS chemicals have been used in nonstick cookware, fire retardants, flame and water-proof clothing, food wrappers, automotive and industrial applications, and stain prevention products. Scientific studies have linked PFAS to health impacts such as cancer, thyroid disease, weakened immunity, and other health problems. The Indiana communities where PFAS chemicals were detected are all downstream from potential industrial sources of chemical pollution. The situation in Indiana is similar to states across the country. These chemicals have gone undetected in drinking water for decades, and only when states and municipalities step up to conduct testing do communities become aware of the concerns.  For more information and resources check out our PFAS resource page.

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Blog – Freshwater Future

https://freshwaterfuture.org/freshwater-weekly/freshwater-future-weekly-january-21-2022/

Alana Honaker

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Michigan governor releases plan draft for carbon neutrality

By Anna Liz Nichols, Associated Press

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan will build clean energy infrastructure and invest in green programs over the next 30 years with the goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050 to confront climate change, a draft of a state plan says.

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Great Lakes Now

https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/01/ap-plan-draft-carbon-neutrality/

The Associated Press