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A U.S. House Committee will be taking up the National Defense Authorization Act. An environmental group is hoping it includes funding and deadlines for…
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The U.S. Senate will be considering two bills to clean up PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) at military installations. The ‘Filthy Fifty Act’…
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If you buy some kinds of bagged fertilizer for your garden, you might be getting more than you want.The Ecology Center and Sierra Club sampled different…
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Michigan members of Congress are once again pushing legislation to speed the cleanup of sites contaminated with PFAS.PFAS are a family of industrial…
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J.D. Hock’s heart sank in 2018, when the state of Michigan warned it was unsafe to eat deer harvested within a five-mile radius of Clark’s Marsh in Oscoda…
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A Michigan-based environmental group has found many nonstick pans are coated with a chemical from the PFAS family.“We suspected that a lot of pans that…
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One chemical in the PFAS family is showing up more often and in greater concentrations in fish.The PFAS chemical is PFOS.“We do have a pretty heavy data…
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Legislation soon will be introduced in Michigan to ban food packaging that contains toxic chemicals such as PFAS, bisphenols, or phthalates.Some…
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Michigan’s new PFAS drinking water standards went into effect this week. The restrictions include seven more common chemicals from the PFAS family.…
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The Air Force met with Oscoda residents on Wednesday to discuss plans for how they'll use millions of dollars earmarked for cleanup of the former…