Tag: environmental protection agency
EPA on pause: Who’s policing polluters in the Great Lakes State and beyond?
As the Environmental Protection Agency scales back enforcement because of staff shortages and new federal rollbacks, concerns are growing in Michigan and across the country about who will hold polluters […]
AquaBounty hearing set for June 11 at Williams County Fairgrounds in Montpelier
MONTPELIER, Ohio — The wastewater-discharge permit that the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency intends to issue to AquaBounty Farms Ohio LLC will be the subject of a public meeting and hearing hosted by the agency at 6 p.m. June 11.
Are data centers a threat to the Great Lakes?
One of the lowest income cities in Michigan has a proposed $3 billion data center as a potential lifeline — but environmentalists and locals warn of high costs to water, climate and community.
Trump Loses Big Game Of Offshore Wind Chicken, Bigly
The Empire Wind offshore wind farm is back on track, saving thousands of US jobs both onshore and off, in red and blue states alike.
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Conflict Over A Blockbuster Farm Chemical
Not since DDT was introduced to U.S. agriculture to kill insects after World War Two has a farm chemical been as important to American crop production, and come under more scientific, political, and legal scrutiny as the weedkiller Roundup, and its active ingredient, glyphosate.
With the election of President Donald Trump, the conflict over glyphosate’s risks and benefits entered a new realm of confrontation that has the potential to alter its stature as the favored chemical tool in agriculture, the largest user of fresh water in the blue economy of Michigan and the Great Lakes.