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There's a scene in the 1967 film The Graduate where a well-meaning friend of the family pulls Dustin Hoffman's character aside at his graduation party,...
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It's an especially precarious time for Lake Erie's future. That's according to Jeffrey Reutter , an aquatic biologist and limnologist from Ohio State...
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There are a lot of former industrial sites in Michigan that need to be cleaned up. The pollution left behind in one town in the middle of Michigan is...
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State and federal officials are celebrating the completion of a twenty-year river cleanup effort in southeast Michigan. The River Raisin was once one of...
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We often hear about the economic costs of environmental regulation on the energy industry. But there’s a flip side to that equation — the price society...
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Back in December, there was a toxic spill in Detroit. In my kitchen. It was a Sunday morning. My kids were watching a cartoon. I was reading the paper....
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A research team has discovered high levels of flame retardants in bald eagles in Michigan. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, are in all kinds of...
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More than 40 years ago, people in Michigan were poisoned. Researchers are still following those people today. In 1973, a fire-retardant chemical called...
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Copper. Its use in our lives is astounding, and so is the cost of mining it. When Bill Carter moved to Bisbee, Arizona, he found himself directly...