Tag: Groundwater Contamination
Chequamegon Bay Superfund site: History, environmental impact and its importance to Indigenous communities
Chequamegon Bay plays a significant role in our human lives, including past residents like the Huron and Ottawa; and current residents, the Ojibwe-Anishinaabeg, who have gathered and made history there for a millennia. An oblong, shallow bay (61 feet at the deepest point), on the south shore of Lake Superior, the water also holds dark history as a federal Superfund site.
Green Oxamide vs Green Ammonia: The Chemistry Behind a Smarter Fertilizer
China’s latest move in green fertilizer chemistry hasn’t made headlines, but it represents a quietly significant development. A new facility in Xinjiang will soon be producing half a million tonnes of oxamide fertilizer per year—using captured CO₂, green hydrogen, and green ammonia. That sentence alone folds in three separate decarbonization … [continued]
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Veteran Great Lakes advocate cautions on prioritizing economic development over protecting the environment
Rolling back clean water protection, gutting agencies and defunding science, research and monitoring is a non-starter for the Great Lakes region, says Ann Arbor environmental advocate Laura Rubin.
She was reacting to the new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lee Zeldin’s recently released economy-oriented plan for the agency under President Donald Trump.
State adds two new “areas of interest” for possible PFAS contamination
The sites are the Kalamazoo Regional Fire Training Center, and an area near U.S. 131 in Wexford County, near Cadillac.
New plan aims to stop groundwater contamination from BASF pollution in Wyandotte
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is investigating contamination near BASF’s Wyandotte site, not far from the city’s water intake facility. The site has a history of pollution […]