In the news: Volunteers to help shape standards for Lake Michigan pollution

Posted May 16th, 2011 in Great Lakes Cleanup, News

From Lake Michigan Shore:

Water quality data collected by Chicago-area volunteers is being used to help Illinois shape the state’s water quality guidelines in conjunction with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

“Our Adopt-a-Beach program has been working with volunteers in Chicago and elsewhere in Illinois and we’ve been closely engaged with partners at the EPA and trying to share our volunteers’ data more broadly,” says Lyman Welch, water quality program manager for the Alliance for the Great Lakes in Chicago. “It’s been an intentional process to share our data with state and federal regulators.” Read more.

 

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🚨🚨New episode alert!🚨🚨 Teach Me About the Great Lakes episode 101: Why Don't You Do Stories like This More Often?Meet Dave Spratt from the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources who takes journalists around the Great Lakes to get them into the environments they’re reporting on and to talk with scientists and researchers. Then we meet one of those reporters: Lester Graham from Michigan Public who has been doing award-winning work about the environment for decades.Listen in at the link in bio.

🚨🚨New episode alert!🚨🚨 Teach Me About the Great Lakes episode 101: Why Don`t You Do Stories like This More Often?

Meet Dave Spratt from the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources who takes journalists around the Great Lakes to get them into the environments they’re reporting on and to talk with scientists and researchers. Then we meet one of those reporters: Lester Graham from Michigan Public who has been doing award-winning work about the environment for decades.

Listen in at the link in bio. ...

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