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"Michigan Judge Nullifies Crucial Permit For Mining Project" [1]

"A Michigan judge has overruled state regulators who approved a key permit for a proposed open-pit mine in the Upper Peninsula, another delay for a project that has been debated for nearly two decades."

Environmental Justice [2]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Natural Resources [4]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [8]
Source: AP [9], 01/06/2021
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Whitmer Signs Bills Funding $641 Million Settlement In Flint Water Cases [10]

"Flint residents will have a measure of justice, more than six years after the city's drinking water was contaminated with toxic lead, thanks to two bipartisan bills signed Wednesday."

Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [2]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [3]
People & Population [14]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [8]
Source: Detroit Free Press [15], 12/31/2020
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$600 Million Flint Water Settlement Borrowing Plan Approved By Lawmakers [16]

"Michigan legislators on Wednesday finalized a plan to borrow $600 million to finance the state’s proposed settlement with the residents of Flint, whose water was contaminated with elevated levels of the neurotoxin lead."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [2]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [8]
Source: AP [17], 12/17/2020
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Environmental Justice Stories Will Keep Proliferating in 2021 [18]

The surging racial justice movement has reenergized aspirations to correct the environmental injustices that blemish countless underprivileged U.S. communities. The new TipSheet, another part of our 2021 Guide [19], scans the landscape of trouble spots, from urban to rural, industrial zones to Superfund sites. Plus, story ideas and reporting resources.

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Activism [21]
Air [22]
Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [13]
Government [23]
Health [24]
Journalism & Media [25]
People & Population [14]
Policy [26]
Pollution [5]
Waste [27]
Water & Oceans [6]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [28]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [8]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [29]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [30]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [31]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [32]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [33]
International [34]
Mexico [35]
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"Minnesota Gives Final Green Light To Disputed Oil Pipeline" [36]

"Minnesota regulators approved the final permit Monday for Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 crude oil pipeline replacement across northern Minnesota, giving the company the green light to begin construction on the $2.6 billion project."

Energy & Fuel [37]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Natural Resources [4]
Transportation [38]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [28]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [8]
Source: AP [39], 12/01/2020
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"Enbridge Sues Michigan Over Oil Pipeline Shutdown Order" [40]

"Enbridge filed a legal challenge Tuesday to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s recent demand that the company shut down its oil pipeline that crosses the waterway connecting Lake Huron and Lake Michigan."

Disasters [41]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Fish & Fisheries [42]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [8]
Source: AP [43], 11/25/2020
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"Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Advisers Quit Over Pipeline Permit" [44]

"A citizen advisory group at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has collapsed following the regulator’s decision to issue a water-quality permit to Enbridge Energy for its Line 3 oil pipeline cutting through Minnesota."

Energy & Fuel [37]
Environmental Justice [2]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [8]
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune [45], 11/19/2020
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Flint, Other Defendants Agree To Settle Water Lawsuit For $641.2 Million [46]

"The city of Flint and two other defendants have joined a $600-million Flint water crisis settlement the state of Michigan announced in August, bringing the total value of the settlement in the lead poisoning case to $641.2 million, attorneys announced late Tuesday."

Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [2]
Environmental Politics [13]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [8]
Source: Detroit Free Press [47], 11/19/2020
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For Waste Industry, PFAS Disposal Leads to Controversy, Regulation, Mounting Costs [48]

The toxic compounds known as PFAS are causing a crisis in the waste and recycling industry, which faces mounting regulation and litigation over handling its presence in the waste stream. One reporter on the PFAS front lines explains the industry’s dilemma, as well as the challenges of covering the story and how a financial prism led to important insights into industry’s response.

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Chemicals [11]
Economy & Business [50]
Environmental Health [12]
Health [24]
Journalism & Media [25]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Military [51]
Pollution [5]
Waste [27]
Water & Oceans [6]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [28]
California [52]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [8]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [53]
Northwest (OR WA) [54]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [32]
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"Whitmer Moves To Shut Down Enbridge's Line 5" [55]

"Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is moving to shut down Line 5 by revoking and ending a 1953 easement that allows Enbridge Energy to run the dual pipeline through the Straits of Mackinac."

Disasters [41]
Energy & Fuel [37]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Transportation [38]
Public [7]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [8]
Source: Detroit News [56], 11/16/2020
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