Great Lakes Now Michigan

Can environmental law move beyond bedrock 1970’s legislation, while adapting to current and future challenges?

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Can environmental law move beyond bedrock 1970’s legislation, while adapting to current and future challenges?

A 2022 report titled Promises Half Kept at the Half Century Mark, by the Environmental Integrity Project, released on the Clean Water Act’s 50th anniversary said the law is “falling short of its original goals.”

Michigan, for example, has the 4th largest number of impaired lakes, reservoirs and streams assessed for water contact recreation in the U.S.

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London Free Press

Two people dead after collision north of Stratford: Police

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STRATFORD – Two people died following a multi-vehicle crash near the community of Millbank, northeast of Stratford, on Wednesday afternoon. Perth County Ontario Provincial Police, paramedics and the Perth East Fire Department responded just before 3:30 p.m. on Perth Road 121, at the intersection of Line 67, after a passenger vehicle and commercial vehicle collided. […]