New luxury homes, yacht slips, and trendy hotels and restaurants are cropping up along the glittering waterfront of this west Michigan city.

Nothing unusual for the Lake Michigan coast, long known for beach towns that cater to summer vacationers and wealthy second-homers. But to those familiar with Muskegon’s blue collar history, it’s a stunning transformation.

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Change is happening since Donald Trump took office and began making good on campaign pledges to reduce the size and scope of the work of the federal agencies that serve the country.

And the 50-year-old focus of the U.S. EPA to protect the environment has not been immune.

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By Carrie Klein, Inside Climate News

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Michigan’s Palisades Nuclear Generating Station is one step closer to becoming the first nuclear power plant in the United States to reopen.

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By Michael Livingston

Points North is a biweekly podcast about the land, water and inhabitants of the Great Lakes.

This episode was shared here with permission from Interlochen Public Radio. 

On a blustery September day in 2024, 68-year-old David Holtfreter decides to go kayaking in Grand Traverse Bay, Michigan.

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By Daniel Wanschura

Points North is a biweekly podcast about the land, water and inhabitants of the Great Lakes.

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On July 12, 2013 the Woessner family was hiking in Indiana.

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By Phil McKenna, Inside Climate News

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LUDINGTON, Mich.— Boarding the S.S.

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By Nina Elkadi, Inside Climate News

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The aquifer from which Joliet, Illinois, sources its drinking water is likely going to run too dry to support the city by 2030—a problem more and more communities are facing as the climate changes and groundwater declines.

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By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, WBEZ

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Experts now say “climate havens” are not places immune from climate change, but areas where adequate preparation is implemented to account for a drastically different climate than anticipated.

Great Lakes cities, like Chicago, are generally considered to be at a lower risk for extreme climate impacts such as wildfires and tropical storms.

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By Patrick Shea, Dan Wanschura and Morgan Springer

Points North is a biweekly podcast about the land, water and inhabitants of the Great Lakes.

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Lake trout are on life support in Lake Michigan.

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