Some interesting regional environmental news from this week:
Great Detroit Free Press editorial on the need for water conservation laws in Michigan.
http://www.freep.com/voices/editorials/ewater1e_20050601.htm
More talk about harnessing wind as an alternative energy source in the region. And if that's not an answer (once concerns about bird kills are addressed) what hope is there to avoid more coal burning? The open waters of the Great Lakes create huge wind power potential.
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/business/11803198.htm
Back to Michigan, where Dow Chemical Company seeks to police itself. You're not allowed to grade yourself in school, or make your own calls in sports, so why would the even more serious matter of cleanup of a poisonous chemical be something to leave to an interested party?
http://www.freep.com/news/mich/dioxin3e_20050603.htm