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Bill would keep other states’ radioactive fracking waste out of Michigan
Posted by Detroit Free Press: None Given on August 21st, 2014
Detroit Free Press: A state senator says he wants to prevent Michigan from further becoming other states’ dumping ground for low-level radioactive waste from the oil and gas drilling process known as fracking.
Sen. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge, said Thursday that he plans to introduce legislation to stop companies in other states, such as Pennsylvania, from dumping low-level radioactive waste materials in Michigan landfills.
The Free Press reported Tuesday that a hazardous-waste landfill in Van Buren Township, Wayne...
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What gradual climate warming could mean for Michigan tourism
Posted by Detroit Free Press: None Given on February 22nd, 2014
Detroit Free Press: Using models based on 100 years of historical weather data, researchers at the University of Maryland in 2008 created climate projections to help gauge the economic impact of a changing environment on states throughout the country.
Models predict a 5- to 10-degree increase in average temperatures and a 20 to 40 percent boost in precipitation. Despite the extra rainfall, Michigan would be drier because hotter temperatures would mean more evaporation. The Great Lakes would experience an increase...
Al Gore at Wayne State: Climate change to blame for storms, droughts, wildfires
Posted by Detroit Free Press: None Given on October 13th, 2011
Detroit Free Press: Former vice-president and Nobel peace prize winner Al Gore was unbowed and unrepentant in blaming recent storms, droughts and wildfires on climate change.
Gore reeled off statistics about huge downpours in Pakistan and Colombia, wildfires in Australia and drought in Texas in the past year that he said are clear evidence of the looming climate crisis.
Even his own hometown, Nashville, had floods that experts said would onlly be expected once every 1,000 years, he said, and most people had no...