Tag: lakes
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.
Nitrate contamination of drinking water could cost Wisconsin communities millions, new report finds
According to a new report by the Alliance for the Great Lakes and Clean Wisconsin, nitrate contamination could cost communities millions of dollars in remediation and lead to higher health […]
COMMENTARY: Slashing federal budget is big problem for state environment agencies
Every dollar that the federal government directs to state environment departments enables the Great Lakes and every other region to steward natural resources, yielding many times the value of the […]
Trump DOJ argues Michigan effort to shut down underwater pipeline interferes with US foreign policy
The Trump administration is stepping into the legal fight over whether Enbridge can continue to operate an aging pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel, arguing that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer […]
Volunteers help make Great Lakes beaches a little cleaner, including Milwaukee’s Bradford Beach
On Saturday, the Alliance for the Great Lakes hosted its Adopt-a-Beach event as part of an international coastal cleanup. Around 2,000 of those volunteers worked to clean up the Great […]