Great Lakes Echo

Researchers use drones to find elusive Michigan rattlesnake | Great Lakes Echo

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By Ruth Thorton Standing together at Pierce Cedar Creek Institute near Hastings, Michigan, two students stared intently at the screen, looking for the subtle signs of the small rattlesnake they were trying to find. The eastern massasauga, Michigan’s only rattlesnake, typically hides in dense vegetation in wetlands, and conservation biologists are concerned about trampling their […]

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Great Lakes Now

Former state toxicologist says nitrate drinking water standards are too lax | Great Lakes Now

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Former state toxicologist says nitrate drinking water standards are too lax

By Henry Redman, Wisconsin Examiner

A former Wisconsin state toxicologist who was involved in creating the state’s nitrate standards for drinking water in the 1980s alleges the science that has informed those standards for decades is deeply flawed and the standards should be stricter.

Dave Belluck, who worked as a toxicologist for multiple states and the federal government, says that “the science is the science” and regulating agencies, including the U.S.

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Great Lakes Now

PFAS Roundup: EPA adds 12 more versions of PFAS to freshwater fish monitoring while federal farm bills focus on “forever chemicals” | Great Lakes Now

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PFAS Roundup: EPA adds 12 more versions of PFAS to freshwater fish monitoring while federal farm bills focus on “forever chemicals”

On Thursday, July 11, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) updated recommendations under the Clean Water Act, adding twelve versions of PFAS to the contaminant list along with amphetamine, three cyanotoxins, a flame retardant, and lead. The EPA noted that these are all pollutants that states, territories, and Tribes are recommended to monitor in local freshwater fish.

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Owen Sound Owen Sound Sun Times

Fundraising run in memory of Tyson Downs to raise money for genetic heart condition research

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Balmy Beach brain cancer survivor Jesse Walker is running to raise money this summer in memory of his friend Tyson Downs and support of research into devastating genetic heart conditions. Downs died unexpectedly a year ago at age 18. The gifted athlete with plans to study civil engineering at Conestoga College played with the Owen […]

London Free Press

New rules coming for London landlords as ‘renoviction’ bylaw backed

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London city council took a big step Tuesday to protect Londoners from bad-faith “renovictions,” approving the drafting of a bylaw that will place new conditions on landlords and leaving the door open for requiring them to provide displaced tenants with another place to stay. City council voted unanimously to advance the licensing and professional approval […]