
Chris Bentley
Associate Producer at Here & Now
Curious citizen🤔Radio guy & podcast dude for NPR's Here & Now: https://t.co/B7FNh0LTz6 Making noise w/CDPROM, La Croix Mystique & more
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2 weeks ago |
boisestatepublicradio.org | Chris Bentley
Michigan’s Grand Haven State Park is a little chilly for swimming and sand castles in early May, but the weather is perfect for a cleanup crew combing the shore of Lake Michigan. Volunteers working with the Alliance for the Great Lakes pluck Styrofoam cups from the sand and catch grocery bags bouncing down the beach like tumbleweeds. Most of the trash they pick up is plastic.
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2 weeks ago |
wbur.org | Chris Bentley
Cleaning up Great Lakes beachesJamie Cross is driving a battery-powered robot with a remote control, following behind its treads as it digs several inches into the beach. (Chris Bentley/Here & Now)Plastic pollution is a growing problem on our beaches, including the Great Lakes. A 2024 report by the International Joint Commission's Great Lakes Science Advisory Board said microplastics are "ubiquitous" in Great Lakes water, sediment and wildlife.
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2 weeks ago |
boisestatepublicradio.org | Chris Bentley
For the full story, click here. This year, Chicago breaks ground on a pipeline that will bring water from the Great Lakes to some suburbs whose groundwater is running dry. Since 2015, Joliet has been in a race to overhaul the area’s water infrastructure at a cost of more than $2 billion, most of that paying for a roughly 62-mile network of new pipes and pump stations that will carry drinking water from Chicago’s purification plants to Joliet and five neighboring communities.
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2 weeks ago |
wbur.org | Chris Bentley
Construction begins on pipeline to bring Great Lakes water to suburbs in needFor the full story, click here. This year, Chicago breaks ground on a pipeline that will bring water from the Great Lakes to some suburbs whose groundwater is running dry.
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3 weeks ago |
wbez.org | Chris Bentley
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