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Fracking in Michigan: How Drilling for Natural Gas Could Impact the Great Lakes

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The Great Lakes are a vast natural resource, therefore it is imperative that fracking’s impacts to the watersheds feeding the Great Lakes, such as the Grand Traverse Bay watershed, be considered. In 2010, the Antrim shale became the U.S.’s s thirteenth largest source of natural gas, comprising over 12,000 drilled wells.

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Is Agrochemical Contamination Killing Nebraska’s Children?

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In the United States, excess nutrients build up in waterways from Lake Erie to the Gulf of Mexico, precipitating algae outbreaks that kill fish, close public drinking water utilities, and pollute water. Tyler Larson was diagnosed in 2010 with neurofibroma sarcoma, which resulted in tumors on nerve endings.

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Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators

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. – To a large extent the harmful algal blooms that foul Michigan’s waters and turn western Lake Erie into a toxic inland sea are the result of mismatches. . The legislature shall provide for the protection of the air, water and other natural resources of the state from pollution, impairment and destruction.”.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

The pact recognizes that world’s countries would need to reduce global carbon emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 levels to limit warming to 1.5 The Biden administration moved Thursday to formally repeal the Trump administration’s controversial rule that vastly restricted the scope of Clean Water Act protections.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

In 2019, the Trump administration rolled back standards put in place under the Obama administration following the 2010 BP oil catastrophe that killed 11 people and spewed oil for five months. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) reintroduced a revised Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act ( H.R.

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