Great Lakes Month in Review: pet coke, fracking, Asian carp funding

WKAR Public Media

Published February 24, 2015 at 1:37 PM EST

At the end of each month, we check in with Great Lakes commentator and journalist Gary Wilson for updates on environmental stories from around the basin.

For today’s Great Lakes Month in Review, we hear about progress on pet coke in Chicago, what’s next for fracking in Michigan, and how budget cuts could impact the fight against Asian carp in the basin.

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