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A Great Lakes oil pipeline faces 3 controversies with no speedy resolutions

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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.

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Great Lakes Echo

Busy Blue Water Bridge gets positive auditor general report 

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By Eric Freedman 

The iconic Blue Water Bridge has received a clean bill of operational health from the Michigan Auditor General’s Office. Based on its preliminary survey of procurement, fleet vehicles, employee training and toll transactions, the office said it saw no need to do a full performance audit of the bridge’s effectiveness and efficiency.

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Great Lakes Now

Amid Rise of RFK Jr., Officials Waver on Drinking Water Fluoridation — Even in the State Where It Started

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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.

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