Cleanup of Kalamazoo River oil spill will take months
A series of mandatory tests will soon begin on the oil pipeline that ruptured last month and sent roughly 820,000 gallons of crude oil into a Lake Michigan tributary. When[…]
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Toxic algae continues to defile water quality in the Buckeye State
“No contact” and surface scum advisories have been popping up around Ohio ever since Grand Lake St. Marys was the first Ohio state park lake this year to have such[…]
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New York bans phosphorus in dish detergents, fertilizers
The state of New York has joined 16 other states in banning stores from carrying dishwasher detergents that contain phosphorus. Gov. David Paterson signed the new state restriction into law[…]
Great Lakes are in the midst of a ‘sewage crisis,’ according to new report
Environmental, business, and civic leaders urged Congress on Monday to solve what they’ve termed the “sewage crisis” in the Great Lakes. From January 2009 through January 2010, five U.S. cities[…]
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