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Michigan court clears South Haven in beach drowning suit
By Eric Freedman
The Michigan Court of Appeals has cleared the city of South Haven of liability in the 2020 drowning of an 18-year-old swimmer at a public beach on the Lake Michigan coast.
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What’s Contaminating Our Once-Pristine Water Sources?
Clean water is vital to our health, communities, and economy. Streams and wetlands provide many benefits by trapping floodwaters, recharging groundwater supplies, filtering pollution, and providing habitat for fish and wildlife. People depend on clean water sources for their health: about 117 million US residents — one in three people … [continued]
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Trump wood tariffs scaring Ontario wood manufacturers, group says
Local impacts of new U.S. tariffs on wood products are unclear but ‘potentially devastating’
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.
Michigan Supreme Court takes up challenge to Line 5
The Michigan Supreme Court said it will hear a challenge brought by Indigenous Nations and environmental advocates who argue that the Michigan Public Service Commission broke state laws in approving […]