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State officials say they’ve reached a milestone in the effort to clean up the St. Mary’s River near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The state Office of the…
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A new report from the International Joint Commission, a bi-national agency, says the Great Lakes restoration continues to progress -- but not quickly…
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When you think about water pollution, you might think about massive sewer overflows, factory pollution or agricultural runoff. But there’s another...
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Flint’s water is still not safe to drink without a filter. A lot of people have been asking whether the water is safe for bathing. Federal and state...
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The Coast Guard has been responding to a leaky shipwreck on the bottom of western Lake Erie. The shipwreck is believed to be the Argo. It’s a tank...
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The biggest inland oil spill in U.S. history happened right here in Michigan. Now that five years have passed, we checked in with people who were...
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"Lake Erie is dead" and "the Cuyahoga River is on fire." Those were actual headlines in the late 1960s spotlighting the deteriorating conditions of the...
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They're known as "Areas of Concern" and Michigan had 14 of them at one time. Now, we have 12 of these toxic places where pollution from the past is...
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There’s plastic trash in every one of the Great Lakes. That plastic includes junk people leave at the beach, microbeads from consumer products such as...
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Arsenic is poisonous. But scientists are still trying to figure out what it does to us at very low doses. A research team has found breastfed infants...