How can enough energy be provided to support growing populations and rising standards of living while reducing heat-trapping gases from burning fossil fuels that are driving global heating and the climate crisis?
Chemicals of Mutual Concern
Since the emergence of mass-produced plastics in the mid-19th century, it’s estimated that more than 6.3 billion metric tons of plastic waste have been generated --- equivalent to the weight of…
Flooding is impacting all of the Great Lakes and understandably dominating headlines and concerns of shoreline communities. At the IJC’s first public consultations of 2019 to consider progress to restore and protect the lakes, researchers and residents reaffirmed that water quality issues also…
Nutrients, Climate Change and Chemical Contamination Top Water Quality Concerns at Green Bay Meeting
The IJC’s Great Lakes Water Quality Board (WQB) gathered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on May 8-9 for its board meeting and to host a public engagement event.
On December 8, 1953, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his “Atoms for Peace” speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, encouraging “world-wide investigation into the most effective peacetime uses of [nuclear] material.” Within five years, the first commercial nuclear…
Across the Great Lakes region, residents overwhelmingly value the lakes and everything they provide – recreationally, economically and aesthetically. In binational polls taken by an IJC board, in person, and in letters and emails, citizens have expressed a deep caring for and desire to protect the…