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Collaborative Water Quality Board Study Recommends Improvements to Nuclear Power Plant Retirement Plans to Better Protect the Great Lakes

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The International Joint Commission’s Great Lakes Water Quality Board brought together advocates and critics of nuclear energy to recommend improvements to nuclear power plant retirement plans to better protect the environment. The board studied the issue of aging nuclear facilities in the Great...
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Government and Individual Actions to Protect Water Quality are Important and Valuable, Increasing Majority of Great Lakes Residents Believe

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Recent polling on water quality issues reveals that an increasing majority of Great Lakes residents believe government and individual actions to protect water quality are important and valuable. The International Joint Commission Great Lakes Water Quality Board conducted its third Great Lakes...
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Coordinated, Strengthened Rules for Animal Waste from Concentrated Facilities Needed To Protect Great Lakes from Algae Blooms According to Water Quality Board Report

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In its new report, the International Joint Commission’s Great Lakes Water Quality Board (WQB) examines the increasing trend that large, concentrated livestock feeding facilities are a source of Great Lakes pollution. Where there are more animals there is more animal waste, or manure. While manure...
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Information on nuclear power facilities, decommissioning regulations and spent nuclear fuel storage now accessible in new background report

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At its September Executive Meeting, the International Joint Commission (IJC) approved release of an informational report, Nuclear Power Facilities in the Great Lakes Basin: Compendium of information related to the current status and decommissioning of Great Lakes nuclear power facilities to support...
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