Great Lakes Now

Amid Rise of RFK Jr., Officials Waver on Drinking Water Fluoridation — Even in the State Where It Started

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Amid Rise of RFK Jr., Officials Waver on Drinking Water Fluoridation — Even in the State Where It Started

By Anna Clark, ProPublica

This story was originally published by ProPublica.

Just 15 months after receiving an award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for excellence in community water fluoridation, the city of Grayling, Michigan, changed course.

With little notice or fanfare, council members voted unanimously in May to end Grayling’s decades long treatment program.

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Clean Technica

When Lightning Strikes Twice: The Ducati V21L’s (Almost) Final Thunder

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This story isn’t written from onsite coverage or from a press release. It comes from the official YouTube channel of the company, which found its way into my YouTube feed. And it’s fascinating. Though I knew about the e-series and Ducati’s rigorous R&D in the one-make race, I couldn’t catch … [continued]

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The Issues with PHEV Usage Reflect the Challenges to BEV Adoption

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In reading through recent articles on the PHEV debate, the followup on PHEV reporting, and the range of insightful comments to those articles, one persistent question popped out: if you were to buy a PHEV, why wouldn’t you plug it in? Taking a step back, a PHEV is essentially giving … [continued]

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Hydrogen Freight Fizzles As Batteries Take Over Global Trucking

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The debate over whether hydrogen or batteries will dominate freight trucking has been settled by the market, not by opinion. The BloombergNEF 2025 Factbook on zero emission commercial vehicles released September 18th provides another clear set of signals that the argument for hydrogen in road freight is collapsing. Almost 90,000 … [continued]

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Screw It or Pump It? BYD Patents Two Paths to Suspension Energy Recovery

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As the company with the highest EV patent count files dozens of patent applications every day, it can be difficult to keep up with BYD. However, a few patents published last week show different approaches to recovering energy from suspension damping, which we find quite interesting. These inventions have also … [continued]

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