Michigan officials are investigating PFAS contamination in a second watershed that feeds into Lake Erie.
The chemicals were found last summer in Saline, southwest of Ann Arbor, where the city’s wastewater treatment plant was discharging them to a tributary of the River Raisin.
That’s also near a contaminated industrial site, located just steps from the Saline River, that has even higher levels of the unsafe chemicals in groundwater- and they’re possibly moving into the river, officials say.
Continue reading at: PFAS found in Saline during investigation across River Raisin watershed - mlive.com
Iceland Glacier Gone
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
WHO: New report calls for urgent action to avert antimicrobial resistance crisis
CAFOS such as the ones we have in Lenawee County are one big culprit for this danger!
International organizations unite on critical recommendations to combat drug-resistant infections and prevent staggering number of deaths each year
29 April 2019 Joint News Release New York
UN, international agencies and experts today released a groundbreaking report demanding immediate, coordinated and ambitious action to avert a potentially disastrous drug-resistance crisis.
If no action is taken - warns the UN Ad hoc Interagency Coordinating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance who released the report – drug-resistant diseases could cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050 and damage to the economy as catastrophic as the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. By 2030, antimicrobial resistance could force up to 24 million people into extreme poverty.
Continue reading at: New report calls for urgent action to avert antimicrobial resistance crisis
International organizations unite on critical recommendations to combat drug-resistant infections and prevent staggering number of deaths each year
29 April 2019 Joint News Release New York
UN, international agencies and experts today released a groundbreaking report demanding immediate, coordinated and ambitious action to avert a potentially disastrous drug-resistance crisis.
If no action is taken - warns the UN Ad hoc Interagency Coordinating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance who released the report – drug-resistant diseases could cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050 and damage to the economy as catastrophic as the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. By 2030, antimicrobial resistance could force up to 24 million people into extreme poverty.
Continue reading at: New report calls for urgent action to avert antimicrobial resistance crisis
Monday, April 29, 2019
2019 COTE® Top Ten Awards - AIA - Setting the standard in design and sustainability
The 2019 COTE® Top Ten program highlights projects that meet the AIA Committee on the Environment's rigorous criteria for social, economic, and ecological value. The COTE® Top Ten Plus designation denotes projects with exemplary performance data and post occupancy lessons.
2019 COTE® Top Ten Awards - AIA
2019 COTE® Top Ten Awards - AIA
Sunday, April 28, 2019
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Monday, April 22, 2019
Extinction Rebellion arrests pass 1,000 on eighth day of protests | Environment | The Guardian
‘Die-in’ staged at Natural History Museum as protesters gather at legal site in Marble Arch
More than 1,000 people have been arrested at Extinction Rebellion climate protests in London, police have said, in what organisers described as the biggest civil disobedience event in recent British history.
The Metropolitan police said that as of 10am on Monday, 1,065 arrests had been made and 53 people charged in relation to the protests.
Extinction Rebellion activists at the Natural History Museum. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images
Read more at: Extinction Rebellion arrests pass 1,000 on eighth day of protests | Environment | The Guardian
More than 1,000 people have been arrested at Extinction Rebellion climate protests in London, police have said, in what organisers described as the biggest civil disobedience event in recent British history.
The Metropolitan police said that as of 10am on Monday, 1,065 arrests had been made and 53 people charged in relation to the protests.
Extinction Rebellion activists at the Natural History Museum. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images
Read more at: Extinction Rebellion arrests pass 1,000 on eighth day of protests | Environment | The Guardian
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