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Owen Sound’s violent crime severity index two-thirds higher in 2023

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Owen Sound’s violent crime severity index soared in 2023 over the year before.  Unlike the conventional crime rate, the violent crime severity index is weighted, with more serious but less frequent offences, like first-degree murder, given a CSI rating 280 times greater than property theft, for instance.  The city’s crime severity index was 123.41 in […]

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Former state toxicologist says nitrate drinking water standards are too lax | Great Lakes Now

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Former state toxicologist says nitrate drinking water standards are too lax

By Henry Redman, Wisconsin Examiner

A former Wisconsin state toxicologist who was involved in creating the state’s nitrate standards for drinking water in the 1980s alleges the science that has informed those standards for decades is deeply flawed and the standards should be stricter.

Dave Belluck, who worked as a toxicologist for multiple states and the federal government, says that “the science is the science” and regulating agencies, including the U.S.

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What the overturning Chevron deference means for the Great Lakes | Great Lakes Now

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What the overturning Chevron deference means for the Great Lakes

The United States Supreme Court recently overturned a 40-year-old precedent that could have major implications for the Great Lakes. In deciding two cases this term related to herring fishing and regulatory fees — Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce — the nation’s highest court overturned its 1984 holding also known as the “Chevron precedent” or “Chevron deference.” In Chevron v.

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