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Michigan officials on Wednesday began informing the public of tougher sampling rules they expect to result in more drinking-water systems exceeding limits for lead, a byproduct of new regulations enacted after Flint's troubles.

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Developers of a proposed copper-nickel mine in northern Minnesota are courting bankers for $950 million in financing, even as environmental groups push back against the project over fears of water pollution.

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Wisconsin's frac-sand industry is grappling with several idled mines amid increased competition from companies in Texas and Oklahoma.

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Gov. Tony Evers' administration is recommending new groundwater-quality standards for 27 substances determined to be a threat to public health, including compounds known as PFAS.

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Enbridge Energy's plan to replace an aging crude-oil pipeline that runs through northern Minnesota hit another obstacle Tuesday when two state agencies said they would hold up the approval of the project's permits until flaws in its environmental review are eliminated.

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The eight states and two Canadian provinces in the Great Lakes region have agreed to cooperate on enforcing invasive species laws.

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"The Silicon Valley of water." Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? Turning Wisconsin into just that is the goal of the University of Wisconsin System's Freshwater Collaborative, which would bring together the university's 13 campuses into a first-of-its-kind research hub specializing in water topics.

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Enbridge Inc. said Monday that it is moving ahead with the collection of rock and soil samples in the Straits of Mackinac while it prepares for a court battle with Michigan's governor over a planned oil-pipeline tunnel there.

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As a wave of consumer activism swept the country in the 1970s, Wisconsinites formed the country's first statewide consumer advocacy group focused on utilities.

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Proponents of a less-centralized electric system envision a future in which residents, businesses and municipalities own and operate solar panels augmented with batteries and other generators joined together in so-called microgrids.

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