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…
The US Environmental Protection Agency is developing a national action plan to address contamination and pollution from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), synthetic chemical substances that have persisted in the environment since their introduction in the 1940s and have been linked to…