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What’s Contaminating Our Once-Pristine Water Sources?

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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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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.

Read Now at Great Lakes Now.