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Waste Flows Downhill, And That's What Worries Folks In Hendricks, Minn. [1]

"The people of Hendricks, Minn., thought they had won the feedlot war two years ago when they sued to stop a mega-dairy slated for a hilltop just across the border in South Dakota."

Pollution [2]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [4]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [5]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [6]
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune [7], 12/26/2016
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"Emergency Managers, City Officials Charged In Flint Water Crisis" [8]

"Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette's criminal investigation of the Flint water crisis moved a step closer to the highest levels of state government Tuesday as he brought felony charges against two former emergency managers who reported to former Treasurer Andy Dillon and were appointed by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder."

Disasters [9]
Environmental Health [10]
Government [11]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Pollution [2]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [4]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [5]
Source: Detroit Free Press [13], 12/21/2016
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"In Reversal, U.S. Park Service Aims To Move New Wolves To Isle Royale" [14]

"As wildlife ecologists prepare for next month’s 59th annual winter study of wolves and moose on Isle Royale in Michigan, the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) today announced a surprising change in its usual hands-off management of the island wilderness on Lake Superior: proposed plans to introduce 20 to 30 new wolves over the next 3 years."

Wildlife [15]
Public [4]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [5]
Source: Science [16], 12/19/2016
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"Federal Commission Extends Operating License Of Fermi 2" [17]

"NEWPORT, Mich. — The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced early today it has extended the operating license of DTE Energy’s Fermi 2 nuclear power plant in northern Monroe County another 20 years, through March 20, 2045."

Nuclear Power & Radiation [18]
Public [4]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [5]
Source: Toledo Blade [19], 12/19/2016
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"U.S. Blocks Mine Planned Near Boundary Waters in Minnesota" [20]

"The Obama administration on Thursday blocked development of a copper and nickel mine near a popular wilderness area in northern Minnesota, saying the project could poison the vast web of lakes, streams and wetlands that crosshatch the region."

Laws & Regulations [12]
Natural Resources [21]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [4]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [5]
Source: NY Times [22], 12/16/2016
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January 5, 2017 to January 6, 2017

IJNR's Great Lakes Water Compact Workshop [23]

The Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources will bring a group of journalists to Waukesha, the first U.S. city outside of the Great Lakes watershed to receive permission to withdraw water under the Great Lakes Compact, to see how the city will get water from Lake Michigan, treat it and send it back to the basin while also discussing its bigger-picture impacts. Apply ASAP; space is limited.

Workshops and Fellowships [24]
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Michigan's Biggest Utility Phasing Out Coal, Despite Trump's Stance [25]

"LANSING, MI -- President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to end the "war on coal," but DTE Energy CEO Gerry Anderson said the company plans to phase out the fuel, regardless."

Economy & Business [26]
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Politics [28]
Public [4]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [5]
Source: MLive Media [29], 11/29/2016
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"Standing Rock Spirit Spreads To Michigan’s Upper Peninsula" [30]

"SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — Two blocks south of the St. Mary’s River and passing freighters, children from JKL Bahweting tribal school poured off buses, carrying drums, dancing and chanting. 'Protect the water!' a young girl chanted."

Activism [31]
People & Population [32]
Pollution [2]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [4]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [5]
Source: EHN [33], 11/22/2016
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Michigan Fights Court Order To Deliver Bottled Water To Flint Residents [34]

"The state of Michigan on Thursday challenged a federal court order demanding that officials deliver bottled water to Flint residents who can’t easily pick up their own from distribution sites around the city, calling the requirement 'unnecessary' and saying it would require 'a tremendous expenditure of taxpayer funds.'"

Environmental Health [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [4]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [5]
Source: Wash Post [35], 11/18/2016
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"Federal Judge: Deliver Bottled Water To Flint Residents" [36]

"A federal judge ruled Thursday the state of Michigan and Flint have to provide home-delivered bottled water to residents if they can’t prove faucet filters are working to remove harmful lead from the drinking water."

Environmental Health [10]
Laws & Regulations [12]
Water & Oceans [3]
Public [4]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [5]
Source: Detroit News [37], 11/11/2016
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