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The Great Lakes Now monthly television program is produced by Detroit PBS in partnership with a network of PBS affiliates around the region. Shooting on location in eight states and Canada, the magazine-style show brings viewers stories about the recreational, economic, scientific, political and environmental issues related to the Great Lakes and drinking water.
Joliet, Illinois, Plans to Source Its Future Drinking Water From Lake ...
Oct 1, 2024 · The aquifer from which Joliet, Illinois, sources its drinking water is likely going to run too dry to support the city by 2030—a problem more and more communities are facing as the climate changes and groundwater declines.
Where did all the climate voters go? | Great Lakes Now
Nov 22, 2024 · But while climate change may not be a top issue for the majority of Americans, that doesn’t mean they don’t care. Environmental initiatives triumphed across the map: In California, for example, voters sent $10 billion toward climate prevention and resilience. In Washington state, a ballot measure to repeal the state’s landmark Climate Commitment Act, which created a cap-and-invest ...
The murky process of reopening Palisades and why it’s a turning …
May 1, 2024 · U.S. nuclear industry is closely watching Palisades, amid a surge of investments as demand climbs for low-carbon sources of electricity. Other recently shuttered nuclear plants could take a cue from Palisades.
Amish Farmers’ Partnership With Beef Giant Produces Manure Mess
Nov 11, 2024 · EDON, OH — For 60 years, this one stoplight Ohio town has been known as a place where time appears to stand still. With more than 400 Amish residents settled in and around the rural community that straddles the Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan state lines, it is common to see large families traveling by horse-drawn black buggies to and from farms where they milk dairy cows and grow corn.
Ohio Department of Agriculture is working to stop the spread of …
Oct 9, 2024 · A dozen Ohio counties are currently under a quarantine for transporting plant material as the state works to get a handle on its growing spotted lanternfly problem. The invasive spotted lanternfly is being spread primarily by hitchhiking.
Environmentalists, Industry Divided Over Energy Permitting Bill
Nov 15, 2024 · Melting ice. Wildfire smoke. Crop losses.Climate change is already having an impact on the Great Lakes region. According to a 2022 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in order to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, humanity would have to reach net-zero emissions by the 2070s. For a more ambitious goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius, we’d have to get to net zero by the 2050s.
Wisconsin towns are trying to limit CAFO growth. Big Dairy is …
Oct 10, 2024 · By John McCracken, Investigate Midwest. Investigate Midwest is an independent, nonprofit newsroom. Our mission is to serve the public interest by exposing dangerous and costly practices of influential agricultural corporations and institutions through in-depth and data-driven investigative journalism.
Public hearing draws on big questions about Upper Peninsula …
Nov 5, 2024 · Deep public concern. None of the 20-some people who spoke at a virtual public hearing last week supported the mine, and many said the air permitting process wasn’t enough to protect the area or the people there. Highland Copper declined to comment for this story, citing a wish to let EGLE’s permitting process play out.
Great Lakes most unwanted: Top 10 invasive species
Oct 24, 2024 · Since the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway, about 65% of aquatic invasive species were introduced to the Great Lakes via ballast water. The 2000s saw stricter ballast legislation in Canada and the United States. Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the finalization of national ballast standards, in order to further control the release of pollutants and invasive species.