Tag: Lake Michigan
A Great Lakes oil pipeline faces 3 controversies with no speedy resolutions
By Mike Shriberg, University of Michigan
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For more than a decade, controversy over an oil pipeline that passes directly through a Native American reservation and then across a sensitive waterway that is also a key shipping lane has brewed in Wisconsin and Michigan.
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.
South Shore plant overwhelmed, sending 20,000 gallons of untreated wastewater to Lake Michigan
According to the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD), about 20,000 gallons of wastewater leaked into Lake Michigan from MMSD contractor Veolia’s South Shore facility on Sept. 18. MMSD is in […]
Report: 19% of Lake Michigan shore now armored, limiting public access
A new study from MSU researchers used aerial photography to show just how much Michiganâs western shoreline has changed since the high water crisis of 2020. The expansion of hard armoring brings consequences for people and the environment….
UWGB receives grant to study microplastic impact on Great Lakes life
A $330,000 grant has been bestowed upon the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in order to study the impact of microplastics on aquatic life in Lake Michigan. A team will collect […]