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Indiana continues to allow BP to dump toxic mercury into Lake Michigan… spelling doom for mankind

By Mark | June 23, 2013

A little over two years ago, we had a conversation on this site about what recourse, if any, the people of Michigan might have against Indiana for giving British Petroleum (BP) the go-ahead to disregard laws concerning the dumping of hazardous chemicals, and discharge unprecedented amounts of ammonia and toxic, heavy metal sludge into Lake […]

Posted in Environment, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged ammonia, BP, British Petroleum, Chicago, clean water, fresh water, heavy metal, Indiana, Juan Cole, Lake Michigan, legislative capture, mercury poisoning, short-sighted, toxic waste, water, water quality, Whiting refinery | 15 Comments

Introducing the Dusty Diary

By Mark | July 7, 2009

Some of you may remember Laura Bien. Up until about a year ago, she blogged as the YpsiDixit. Well, I’m happy to report that she’s come out of retirement. Laura has launched an engaging new site dedicated to the research of local Ypsilanti history, mainly though the exploration of surviving first-person narratives. The site is […]

Posted in History, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1830, 1874, 1918 flu, 1919, Allie McCullough, blogging, calomel, Carrie Hardy, Cholera Wars, City Archives, debility and suffering, diaries, Dusty Diary, eland tuberculosis sanitarium, facial and jaw deformities, hair and tooth loss, History, history of medicine, inadvertent discoveries en route to something else, Laura Bien, mass graves, mercury poisoning, neurotoxic, storytelling, Tom Dodd, Twitter, WWI, YpsiDixit | 13 Comments

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