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Cancer-causing PFAS to be added to Canada’s toxic substance list
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On March 5, Canada released its final State of PFAS report, and announced that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) would be added to the toxic substances list.
Trump threatens Great Lakes agreements between U.S. and Canada
In 2024 when Donald Trump as a presidential candidate proposed piping water from British Columbia, Canada to California, his statement was largely dismissed as campaign rhetoric.
Once he was elected, Canadians started paying attention but the potential water grab was seen as logistically and politically problematic and unlikely to gain traction.
Ann Arbor’s sustainable energy utility aims to build the electric power grid of the future − alongside the old one
By Mike Shriberg, University of Michigan
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An experiment is underway in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that could change how communities generate and distribute power in the future.
The city, with voters’ strong support, is launching its own sustainable energy utility.
National parks see a record number of visitors, including in Wisconsin
By Danielle Kaeding, Wisconsin Public Radio
This article was republished here with permission from Wisconsin Public Radio.
Wisconsin saw more visitors at sites managed by the National Park Service last year, and America’s national parks had a record number of visitors.
News of the growing demand at the parks comes as the Trump administration has cut staff to manage them.
Stunning new research reveals the Great Lakes pre-date North America
It is widely known by lovers of the Great Lakes that their unique shape was caused by glaciers melting and receding northward. That was approximately 20,000 years ago. However, new research published in Geophysical Research Letters suggests this treasured landmass started forming hundreds of millions of years ago, long before the theory of plate tectonics, when Pangea likely separated into the continents we recognize today.