Michigan leaders speak on Paris Climate agreement return
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LANSING, Mich. â The Michigan League of Conservation Voters, Michigan Environmental Council, Ecology Center and Environmental Law & Policy Center today commended President Joe Bidenâs executive action re-committing the United States to the Paris Climate Agreement.
âWith this executive order, the Biden-Harris administration and the experts they have nominated to key federal positions â including former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm â will focus on ambitious and durable climate action that creates jobs and ensures all communities have clean air and water,â said Nick Occhipinti, government affairs director for the Michigan League of Conservation Voters. âPresident Biden and Vice President Harris today signaled that they will take action to support public health, clean water, and environment by re-joining the Paris Climate Agreemen
Illinois agrees to use Michigan’s $8M toward Asian carp gauntlet
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
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LANSING, MI Construction of a gauntlet meant to keep invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes took a leap toward reality this week with an announcement that Illinois will fund initial costs using $8 million from the state of Michigan.
Illinois has agreed to pay $10.5 million in design and engineering costs toward fortifying the Brandon Road Lock & Dam on the Des Plaines River, a chokepoint in the Chicago area waterway system that would be the last line of defense against silver and bighead carp reaching Lake Michigan.
Toxic contamination usually gets this dramatic only in Hollywood.
In the week before Christmas 2019, commuters on I-696 in Madison Heights were startled by a fluorescent green chemical ooze weeping from a concrete retaining wall along an earthen embankment, the substance puddling on the freeway s shoulder.
Tests later showed the ooze laden with hexavalent chromium, prolonged exposures to which can cause nasal and sinus cancers, kidney and liver damage. The source was obvious, straight up the embankment from the oozing site: Electro-Plating Services, a struggling chrome plating business long on the radar of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its hazardous waste mismanagement.