Our guest blogger for this post is John Jackson, who has been one of Canada’s most dedicated champions of Great Lakes protection for decades. In addition to serving in many roles for Great Lakes advocacy groups, John is a founding member of Great Lakes Ecoregion Network. The first two posts  in this series emphasized why radionuclides should be designated as CMCs. In 2016 and again in 2022, 110 environmental, health and other advocacy groups nominated radionuclides to be name

This post by Great Lakes Together editor, Jane Elder, is the second in a three-part series on radionuclides in the Great Lakes region. Please note that there was an error in last week’s post, where the Three Mile Island incident was erroneously dated as 1973, but the correct date is 1979. We corrected the Substack post and the GLEN website post as soon as we discovered the error. One of the uncomfortable topics of living in the nuclear age is how to manage radioactive materia

This Great Lakes Together Blog is the first in a three-part series on radionuclides in the Great Lakes region. Today’s post is by guest author Barry Boyer. Barry Boyer is Professor of Law Emeritus and former Dean of the Law School at the State University of New York at Buffalo. At the Law School, he taught courses in Environmental and Administrative Law, and health and safety regulation. Boyer has been active in a variety of environmental organizations, including serving as a

This post from Dave Dempsey's Substack, authored by Dan Macfarlane, offers important observations about the waning strength of Great...