Heavy rainfall disproportionately affects people of color and immigrants in the Chicago region. Residents are crafting solutions.
Category: Environment
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Climate change, more rainfall threatens wild rice in northern Minnesota
Wild rice thrives in shallow waters and serves as a sacred “mashkiki,” or medicine, to the Ojibwe.
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Climate costs imperil Detroit’s Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood
Some worry flooding costs could fuel climate gentrification in the ‘Venice of Detroit.’
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The Mississippi River’s floodplain forests are dying. The race is on to bring them back.
Floodplain forests play a pivotal role in the river ecosystem – creating wildlife habitat, improving water quality, storing carbon and slowing flooding. But they’re disappearing.
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Milwaukee residents fear more flooding due to planned I-94 expansion
Two extra highway lanes will add 29 acres of asphalt next to Near West Side Milwaukee neighborhoods that already face flood risks.
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South Side Chicago neighbors fight Lake Michigan’s erosion and flooding
Climate change impacts on Chicago’s South Side are relatedly drawing attention from city and state officials.
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Inundation and injustice: Flooding presents a formidable threat to the Great Lakes region
Cities throughout the Great Lakes region are grappling with archaic wastewater systems, crumbling infrastructure and segregated housing creating a perfect storm of flooding vulnerability.
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Cost questions swirl as Milwaukee aims to replace remaining 66,000 lead pipelines
Mayor Cavalier Johnson’s 20-year timeline to replace the city’s remaining 66,000 lead service lines differs from a plan Milwaukee Water Works laid out.
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Most of the Midwest is in drought – and there’s no simple way to get out of it
Recent rainfall across parts of the Midwest helps, but it may not alleviate a serious drought in the region.
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PFAS may pose the next big threat to fishing in Door County
PFAS could pose a threat to fishing in Door County as regulators adjust their understandings of what is safe to consume.
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Residents of PFAS-polluted island file $42.4 million in claims against Wisconsin city
Residents of an island polluted with PFAS chemicals have filed claims demanding more than $40 million from a western Wisconsin city they consider responsible for the contamination.
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Groups argue Wisconsin regulators can’t make factory farms obtain preemptive pollution permits
Two farm groups have filed a lawsuit alleging that Wisconsin regulators can’t force factory farms to obtain pollution permits before they actually discharge pollutants into state waterways.