AGP Executive Report
Last update: 3 hours agoWater Safety & Accountability: Michigan’s private water testing scandal keeps widening: Douglas Environmental and its president were sentenced for falsifying water safety and discharge tests for mobile home communities, with required EGLE notifications missed or altered. Public Health: Michigan’s cyclospora outbreak is exploding—MDHHS says 2,640 cases as of July 13, with 44 hospitalizations, and the source still isn’t pinned down; CDC tracking shows the surge spreading across 31 states. PFAS & Great Lakes: A Notre Dame meta-analysis using decades of Great Lakes samples finds PFAS move through the food web into people, with PFOS dropping in some lower lakes but persisting in upper waters like Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. Energy & Data Centers: A new review finds Michigan’s older data-center tax break cost nearly $13M in revenue over five years, and critics say the program’s secrecy blocks real oversight as AI-driven power demand grows. Climate Outlook: Forecasters say a brewing Super El Niño likely won’t guarantee a hotter Michigan summer, but it raises the odds of a more disruptive fall and winter pattern.
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